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Fairview (PCER 850)


PCER-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue): Laid down, 6 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 8 February 1944; Commissioned USS PCER-850, 17 April 1944; Named Fairview, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one dual purpose 3"/50 gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts, two dct, two dcp Propulsion two 1,800 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.
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Fairview 43k . Former crew member
Robert J. Higgins

There is no DANFS History currently available for Fairview (PCER 850) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association

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