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Portage (PCE-902)
ex-PCE-902



Call sign:
November - Papa - Golf - Foxtrot
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 29 January 1943 at Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland Oregon; Launched 28 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-902, 30 April 1945; Decommissioned in 1949/1950 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA and placed in service as a naval reserve training ship; Named Portage 15 February 1956; Struck form the Navy Register 1 June 1970; Sold for scrap by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service 1 December 1973.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, three twin 40mm gun mounts, five single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Portage 195k - Boyd Pinyon
Portage 61k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Portage 34k U.S. Navy photo from the May 1969 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
View the Portage (PCE-902)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
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