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PCE-834


PCE-833 was transferred to Great Britain.

PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 12 March 1943 as PCE-834 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Launched 19 August 1943; Completed 20 October 1943; Commissioned HMS Kilkenzie (BEC 8) in 1943; Decommissioned (date unknown); Laid up in reserve in July 1945 at Sheerness, UK; Returned to U.S. custody 10 December 1946; Sold to Armand Pittman and Company in December 1946; Struck from the Naval Register in 1947; Sold in 1948 to Giertsen and Co., Bergen, Norway and converted to a cargo ship; Renamed M/S Nadodd after a Nordic Viking hero. M/S Nadodd sailed in the North Sea and the Medeterrenian until 1952 when it was sold to the Southern Lines Ltd. in the Phillipines at a price of £60,000 pounds and renamed General Wright; Sold in 1967 to the Sweet Line, Philippines and renamed Sweet Sail; Scrapped at Manila in April 1978.

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 1,600 shp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-834 145k c. 1950
M/S Nadodd at Bergen, Norway
Alf Johan Kristiansen Collection © 2003
Hugo C. Lütcherath
Bergen, Norway

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-834 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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