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PCE-893


PCE-893 served the Navies of the United States and Cuba.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 27 October 1942 by the Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 8 May 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-893, 25 July 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred, 20 November 1947 to Cuba as Siboney (H 101); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 860 t; Length 184'; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.5k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, two twin 40mm, two 20mm, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion two 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-893 110k Builders photo, 21 July 1944.
US Navy photo NH 96487
US Naval Historical Center
PCE-893 87k c. July 1944
US Navy photo NH 86714
US Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS History currently available for PCE-893 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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