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PCE-885


PCE-885 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.



Call sign for RPS Leyte:
Delta - Uniform - November - Xray



PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 25 February 1944 by the Albina Engineering and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 20 June 1944; Commissioned USS PCE-885, 30 April 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Republic of the Philippines, July 1948 and renamed RPS Leyte (PS 30); Struck form the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, three twin 40mm gun mounts, two dct, four dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion two 2,000shp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.
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Leyte 47k RPS Leyte (PS 30)
Philippine Navy Photo
Jane's Fighting Ships

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-885 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
John C. Kilman Sr.
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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