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PCE-884


PCE-884 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.



Call sign for RPS Negros Occidental:
Delta - Uniform - November - Tango

PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 27 October 1944 by the Albina Engineering and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 24 February 1944; Commissioned USS PCE-884, 30 March 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Republic of the Philippines, July 1948 and renamed RPS Negros Occidental (PS 29); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, three twin 40mm gun mounts, two dct, four dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion two 2,000shp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-885 55k Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen John C. Kilman Sr.
Crew member 1946

Letters/Messages Home from the PCE-884
from
Willie Caton "Bill" Culpepper, Radioman 2/c, V6, USN

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-884
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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