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PCE-902 Portage


PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 29 January 1943 at Williamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland Oregon; Launched 28 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-902, 30 April 1945; Decommissioned c 1949-1950 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia PA. and placed In-Service as a naval reserve training ship; Renamed USS Portage (PCE-902), 15 February 1956; Placed Out-of-Service (date unknown); Struck form the Naval Register 1 June 1970; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, 1 December 1973.

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, diesel.
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