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Marysville (PCE[R] / EPCE[R] 857)


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PCER-489 Class Patrol Craft Rescue Escort: Laid down, 21 December 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 4 May 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-857, 26 April 1945; Rreclassified as a Experimental Patrol Rescue Escort EPCE(R)-857, 22 March 1947; Named Marysville,15 February 1950; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three single 40mm Gun Mounts, six single 20mm Guns, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE(R)-857 57k PCE(R)-855 approaching PCE(R)-857 at San Diego, 15 February 1946 EM3 James Rowan
via his grandson Rick Rowan

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