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Parris Island (AG 72)
ex-PCE-901

PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort/Miscellaneous Auxiliary: Laid down 10 May 1943 as PCE-901 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; Launched 8 July 1943; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary and named Parris Island (AG 72), 28 April 1944; Commissioned USS Parris Island (AG 72), 30 October 1944; Decommissioned 19 June 1947; Struck from the Navyl Register 1 August 1947; Transferred to the Maritime Commission 20 January 1948; Sold to a Honduran Registry in 1948; Retained name and served as the M/V Parris Island into 1970. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9'; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 110; Armament four single 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion two 1,800shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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