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PCE-874 Pascagoula


Pascagoula served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 1 March 1943 at Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 11 May 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-874, 31 December 1943; Decommissioned 25 November 1946 at New Orleans, LA and placed in service the same day as a naval reserve training ship; Named Pascagoula, 15 February 1956; Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1959; Transferred on loan under the Military Assistance Program to Ecuador 5 December 1960 and renamed Manabi (E-02); Struck from Ecuador Navy in 1970. Fate unknown.

Ecuador 5 December 1960, under the Military Assistance Program. Renamed Manabi (E--02) she serves the Ecuadorean Navy into 1970. Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 16k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 Gun Mount, three single 40mm Gun Mounts, five single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion two General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, 1,800 bhp, two shafts.


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PCE-874 128k c. 1953
Docking at NAS Corpus Christi, TX.
Harry Kalbach
PCE-874 124k c. December 1955
Post card of PCE-874 entering the harbor at Havana, Cuba.
Orson Rathburn, Jr.

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