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PCE-881


PCE-881 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.



Call sign for RPS Cebu: Delta - Uniform - Oscar - Alpha

PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 11 August 1943 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 10 November 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-881, 31 July 1944; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to the Philippines in July 1948 and renamed RPS Cebu (PS 28); Struck form the Naval Register, (date unknown); Cebu was stricken in 1975. Fate unknown.

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 two 900bhp General Motors 12-567A diesels engines, two shafts.


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Cebu 72k RPS Cebu (PS 28).c. 1971.
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Jane's Fighting Ships

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-881.

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

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