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PCE-845 Worland
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 25 July 1943 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 1 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-845, 1 March 1944 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned, 22 December 1947 at Galveston, TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group; Recommissioned, 11 December 1950 at Chicago IL; Renamed USS Worland (PCE-845), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, 25 May 1964 at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group; Struck form the Naval Register, 1 June 1964; Acquired by Cape Fear Technical Institute, Wilmington, NC, 6 August 1964, renamed R/V Advance II; Sold to a fishing company in Virginia, (date unknown); Donated to the North Carolina Department of Fisheries and sunk in 1994 off Kitty Hawk as part of their artificial reef program.
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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