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Ely (PCE 880)


PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 12 August 1943 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 27 October 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-880, 29 April 1944; Named Ely, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck form the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold into Merchant service, (date unknown) and renamed R/V Aqualab II; Still in service into 1980. 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 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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Ely 99k Moored at the Naval Reserve Training Center Sheboygan, WI Jim Erdman

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