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PCER / PCE-847


PCE-847 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down as Patrol Rescue Escort PCER-847, 24 August 1943; Reclassified as Patrol Craft Escort PCE-847, (date unknown); Launched, 27 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-847, 18 March 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Sold to Mexico in 1947 and named David Porter; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 180' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 15k; Complement 110; Armament one 3"/50 Gun Mount, three single 40mm Gun Mounts, five single 20mm Guns, two dct, four dcp, two dcp (hh); Propulsion two 900bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-847 61k - Hyperwar US Navy in WW II

There is no DANFS history available for PCE-847 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

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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