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Marfa (PCE 842)

Marfa served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 12 June 1943 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago Ill.; Launched 14 November 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-842, 29 January 1944 at New Orleans La.; Decommissioned 7 November 1947 at New Orleans, La. and placed in-service as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out-of-service 17 August 1955 at Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Named Marfa 15 February 1956; Struck form the Naval Register 1 June 1961; Transferred to South Korea 18 December 1961 under the Miliatary Assistance Program as Tang Po (PCE-56); Sunk by North Korean shore battery fire north of the demarcation line 19 January 1967.
Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 16k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, three single 40mm, five single 20mm, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.
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