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PCE-827


PCE-827 was transferred to Great Britain.

PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 14 October 1942 as PCE-827 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Launched 2 May 1943; Completed 14 July 1943; Commissioned HMS Kilbernie (BEC 1) 16 July 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Laid up in reserve at Sheerness in June 1945; Returned to U.S. custody 10 December 1946; Struck from the Naval Register in 1947; Sold in 1947 to Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab, Stavanger, Norway and rebuilt as a coastal passanger ship and renamed Haugesund; Sold in 1973 to Libera Navigazione Lauro S.A.S., Naples, Italy and renamed Sicilia Ponte; Sold in 1982 to Fila Societa per Azioni, Italy and renamed Tucalif; Scrapped in Italy in August 1997.

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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Kilbernie 51k HMS Kilbernie (BEC 1)
US Navy Photo
Joe Radigan
Haugesund 98k Haugesund Lauri Kervinen
Finland
Haugesund 110k Haugesund Lauri Kervinen
Finland
Tucalif 49k Tucalif Hugo C. Lütcherath
Bergen, Norway

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-827 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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