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PCER / EPCER-852 Brattleboro


Brattleboro served the Navies of the United States, South Vietnam and the Philippines.

PCER-842 Class Patrol Craft Rescue Escort: Laid down, 28 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 1 March 1944; Commissioned USS PCER-852, 26 May 1944 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Named Brattleboro 15 February 1956; Reclassified an Experimental Patrol Craft (Rescue) EPCER-852, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to South Vietnam, 11 July 1966 and renamed Ngoc Hoi (HQ-12); Escaped to the Philippines after the fall of South Vietnam; Renamed RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19).
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one dual purpose 3"/50 gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts, two dct, two dcp Propulsion two 900bhp General Motors diesel engines (12-567A starboard engine and 12-567B port engine),
two shafts.


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PCER-852 108k . Bob Goll
PCER-852 36k c. 1965. Seen here as South Vietnamese Ngoc Hoi (HQ-12). -
PCER-853 103k Seen here as RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19) -

There is no DANFS history available for Brattleboro (PCER-852) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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