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PCE-830

PCE-830 was transferred to Great Britain.
PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, (date unknown) as PCE-830 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned HMS Kilchernan (Z 04), 1943; Redesignated BEC-4, (date unknown); Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1947; Sold to Norway (date unknown), converted to a passenger ferry and renamed Sunnhordland; Sold, (date unknown) to the Kristina Cruise Line in Finland and renamed Kristina Brahe. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 180' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 15k; Complement 100; Armament one 3"/50, three single 40mm, five single 20mm, two dct, four dcp, two dcp (hh); Propulsion two General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.
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30k |
Line drawing of HMS Kilchernan c. 1943 |
Raimo A. Wirrankoski Finland |
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74k |
Line drawing of Sunnhordland c. 1949 |
Raimo A. Wirrankoski Finland |
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65k |
Sunnhordland |
Raimo A. Wirrankoski Finland |
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80k |
Line drawing of Kristina Brahe c. 1985 |
Raimo A. Wirrankoski Finland |
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95k |
Kristina Brahe |
Raimo A. Wirrankoski Finland |
There is no DANFS history available for PCE-830 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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