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PCE-875


PCE-875 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 10 March 1943 by the Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 27 May 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-875, 19 January 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Sold to Mexico in 1947 and named Tomas Marin; Struck form the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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 two 900bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-875 165k Repair ships at Manicani, Samar, Philippine Islands. PCE-875 in foreground. Drydocks are in the background. Date unknown. Richard W. Friedrich, F/1c, LSM-467; slide 069

There is no DANFS History currently available for PCE-875 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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