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Skowhegan (PCE 843)
ex-PCE(R)-843


PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down as Patrol Rescue Escort, PCE(R)-843, 25 June 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago IL; Launched 24 November 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-843, 30 January 1944 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned in March 1955 at Boston, MA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston; Named Skowhegan 15 February 1956; Struck form the Naval Register in July 1960; Sold in 1961. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 16k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three single 40mm Gun Mounts, five single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion 1800bhp, General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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Skowhegan 94k In port following World War II.
Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977.
U.S. Navy photo NH 85417
Naval Historical Center
Skowhegan 73k Skowhegan (PCE-843)outboard of Groton (PCE-900)
South Boston Naval Annex, 1959
©Richard Leonhardt

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret., PC-793
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