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PCER / PCE-844


PCE-844 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Escort: Laid down as Patrol Rescue Escort PCER-844, 8 July 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Reclassified as a Patrol Escort PCE-844, (date unknown); Launched, 1 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-844, 18 February 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Sold to the Mexican Navy in 1947 and renamed Pedro Sainz De Barandas; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, three twin 40-mm; Propulsion two 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-844 173k c. 1945
Philippines
George M. French
PCE-844 98k c. 1945
Philippines
George M. French

There is no DANFS History currently available for PCE-844 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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