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PCE-829


PCE-829 was transferred to Great Britain.

PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, (date unknown) as PCE-829 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned HMS Kilchatten (Z 03), 1943; Redesignated BEC-3, (date unknown); Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1947; Sold to Norway (date unknown), converted to a passenger ferry and renamed Stavanger; Sold, (date unknown) to Finland and renamed Kong Sverre; Renamed Capri Corne; Scrapped in Finland (date unknown).

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 180' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 15k; Complement 100; Armament one 3"/50, three single 40mm, five single 20mm, two dct, four dcp, two dcp (hh); Propulsion two General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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Kilchatten 35k c. 1943. HMS Kilchatten (BEC 3). J. Irish

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-829 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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