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PCE-900 Groton


PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 11 January 1943 at Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland Oregon; Launched 11 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-900, 12 April 1944; Decommissioned 19 August 1955; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Groton (PCE-900), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register 1 February 1960; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9'; Speed 16.5k; Complement 96; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three single 40mm Gun Mounts, four single 20mm Guns, two dct, four dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion, diesel.
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PCE-900 45k Entering Pearl Harbor. c. 1946/1947. Charles W. Okonski
via David Okonski
PCE-900 75k Boston © Richard Leonhardt
PCE-900 118k Boston © Richard Leonhardt
Groton 73k Groton (PCE-900) inboard of Skowhegen (PCE-843)
South Boston Naval Annex, 1959
© Richard Leonhardt
PCE-900 131k Boston © Richard Leonhardt

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II" by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793
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