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PCE-1608


PC-1608 was built for The Netherlands.

PCE-1604 Class Patrol Craft Escort/Roofdier (Predator) Class Corvette: Laid down 3 August 1952 as PCE-1608 by the Avondale Marine Ways Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 1 May 1954; Commissioned, 11 June 1954 as the Dutch Corvette HRNLMS Panter (Panther) (F 821); Scrapped in 1987.

Specifications: Displacement 402 t.; Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 18.7 kts.; Complement 63; Armament one 3"/50 mount, two 40-mm mounts; two 20-mm mounts, Between 1959 and 1962 the boat was armed with a MK15 Hedgehog rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-1605 122k HRNLMS Wolf (F 817), ex-PCE-1607, HRNLMS Hermelijn (F 819), ex-PCE-1605, HRNLMS Vos (F 820), ex-PCE-1606, and HRNLMS Panter (F 821), ex-PCE-1608
Royal Netherlands Navy Photo
Fran VanGerven
F-821 76k In the Kiel Canal
c. July 1969
Royal Dutch Navy Photo
Royal Dutch Navy

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-1608 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
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