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Eunice (PCER / PCE 846)


Eunice served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Rescue Escort: Laid down, 10 August 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 20 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCER-846, 4 March 1944; Reclassified a Patrol Escort PCE-846, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Named Eunice in February 1956; Struck form the Naval Register, 31 March 1978; Transferred to Ecuador 1 August 1978 and renamed Emeralds. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, three twin 40-mm; Propulsion two 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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Eunice 61k c. 1951
New Orleans, LA
Lynna Kay Shuffield

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