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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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Size Image Description Source
Kilchernan 30k Line drawing of HMS Kilchernan
c. 1943
Raimo A. Wirrankoski
Finland
Sunnhordland 74k Line drawing of Sunnhordland
c. 1949
Raimo A. Wirrankoski
Finland
Sunnhordland 65k Sunnhordland Raimo A. Wirrankoski
Finland
Kristina Brahe 80k Line drawing of Kristina Brahe
c. 1985
Raimo A. Wirrankoski
Finland
Kristina Brahe 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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U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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