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PCE-833


PCE-833 was transferred to Great Britain.

PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down as PCE-833 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Commissioned HMS Kilham (Z 07) in 1943; Reclassified BEC-7; Returned to U.S. custody in December 1946; Struck from the Naval Register in 1947; Sold in 1949 to Fylkesbaatane i Sogn og Fjordane, Bergen, Norway and converted to a passenger ship; Renamed M/S Sognefjord in 1950; Operated on the Norwegian west coast until 1982; Sold in 1982 to Filmeffekt A/S, Oslo, Norway and renamed Orion; Sold in 1984 to A/S Orion, Milde, Norway and laid up; Sold in 1987 to Matkat OY, Helsingfors, Finland; Sold again in 1991 to Orion Risteilyt O/Y, Hamina, Finland and renamed Orion II; Sold in 1996 to Jaako Mathias Eriksson of Honduras; Sold again in 1997 to an unknown buyer in Thailand and renamed Orient Explorer. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 180' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 15k; Complement 100; Armament one 3"/50, three single 40mm, five single 20mm, two dct, four dcp, two dcp (hh); Propulsion two General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-833 61k Line drawing of PCE-833 Raimo A. Wirrankoski
Finland
Sognefjord 98k Left, the M/S Sognefjord
© Peter Asklanders
Raimo A. Wirrankoski
Finland
Orion II 68k M/S Orion II
© Sten Carlsson
Raimo A. Wirrankoski
Finland
PCE-833 72k 14 September 2004
Orient Explorer at Langkawi Island, Kuah Bay, Malaysia
Reinier van de Wetering
PCE-833 74k 14 September 2004
Orient Explorer at Langkawi Island, Kuah Bay, Malaysia
Reinier van de Wetering
PCE-833 94k 14 September 2004
Orient Explorer at Langkawi Island, Kuah Bay, Malaysia
Reinier van de Wetering

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