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Gettysburg (PCE 904)
ex-PCE-904



Call sign:
November - Papa - Hotel - Zulu
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 18 February 1943 at Williamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched 9 September 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-904, 31 May 1945; Decommissioned 5 January 1950; Recommissioned 21 November 1950 at New York City, NY; Decommissioned 2 September 1955 at New London, Conn.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Named Gettysburg 15 February 1956; Sold for scrap 23 June 1960 to Boston Metals Co. of Baltimore, Md.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, three twin 40mm mounts, five single 20mm 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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PCE-904 32k 3"/50 main mount Garth Turner
PCE-904 28k 40mm mount Garth Turner
PCE-904 28k 20mm mount Garth Turner
PCE-904 82k Naval Institute photo .
PCE-904 59k c. Fall 1945
Baker docks, Pearl Harbor		 Garth Turner
PCE-904 34k c. Early 1946
Pearl Harbor, HI		 Garth Turner
PCE-904 25k c. Early 1946
Pearl Harbor, HI		 Garth Turner
PCE-904 52k c. Early 1946
Pearl Harbor, HI
In dry dock for shaft repairs		 Garth Turner
PCE-904 24k c. Early 1946
Pearl Harbor, HI
In dry dock for shaft repairs		 Garth Turner
PCE-904 72k c. Early 1946
Pearl Harbor, HI
In dry dock for shaft repairs		 Garth Turner
PCE-904 69k c. Early 1946
Pearl Harbor, HI
In dry dock for shaft repairs		 Garth Turner
PCE-904 107k c. 1947
Midway Island		 Bill Lambert, former RDM3/c
Crew member 1947/1948
PCE-904 73k c. 1952 Robert Hurst
View the Gettysburg (PCE-904)
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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