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Whitehall (PCE[R] / PCE 856)


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PCE(R)-489 Class Patrol Craft Rescue Escort: Laid down, 17 December 1943 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill; Launched, 21 April 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-856, 11 November 1944; Decommissioned at Norfolk, VA, 23 June 1946; Recommissioned, 18 November 1950; Named Whitehall, 15 February 1956; Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort PCE-856, 15 March 1962; Decommissioned, 1 July 1970 at Philadelphia, PA and her name was struck from the Naval Register; Reportedly sold for scrap, 17 May 1973 to the R. W. Denny Corp., Montvale, NJ, but in fact sold in 1970 to Eastern Seaboard Pile-Driving, Montvale, NJ and renamed Donna Marie; Converted to a tug in 1974; Sold in 1980 to Standard Products Co. Inc., Virginia and renamed Atlantic Surf; Sold (date unknown), to Omega Protein Inc., Hammond, LA and renamed Atlantic Shore. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one dual purpose 3"/50 gun mount, two single 40mm Gun Mounts, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two 2,000 shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, two shafts.


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