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Crestview (PCE 895)


Crestview served the Navies of the United States, South Vietnam and the Philippines.

PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 2 December 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; Launched, 18 May 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-895, 30 October 1944; Named Crestview, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Transferred to South Vietnam, 29 November 1961 and renamed Dong Da II (HQ 07); Escaped to the Philippines in 1975 and renamed Sultan Kudarat
(PS 22)
. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9'; Speed 15.7 k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three twin 40mm gun mounts, two dct, four dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion two 2,000shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-894 94k 28 September 1945
Mare Island Navy Yard
PCE-984 incline tests. The bows of PCE-895 and PCE-896 are visible in the background.
U.S. Navy Photo 4528-45
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Public Affairs Office
PCE-895 103k c. 1965. Seen here as RVN Dong Da II (HQ 07) © Richard Leonhardt
LSM-276/PCE-895 103k c. 1965. Seen here as RVN Dong Da II (HQ 07)
alongside RVN Hau Giang (HQ 04), ex-LSM-276.
© Richard Leonhardt

There is no DANFS history available for Crestview (PCE 895) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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