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PCE-876
YDG-8
Lodestone (ADG 8)



YDG-8 call sign:
November - Juliet - Yankee - Xray



PCE-842 Class Patrol Escort: Laid down, 1943 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-876, 1944; Reclassified as a District Degaussing Vessel YDG-8, (date unknown); Named Lodestone and reclassified as a Degaussing Ship ADG-8, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 21 February 1975; Scrapped,1 May 1976.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, three twin 40-mm; Propulsion two 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.
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