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Gettysburg (PCE 904)


PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 18 February 1943 at Williamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched 9 September 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-904, 31 May 1945; Decommissioned 5 January 1950; Recommissioned 21 November 1950 at New York City, NY; Decommissioned 2 September 1955 at New London, Conn.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Named Gettysburg 15 February 1956; Struck form the Naval Register (date unknown); Sold for scrapping 23 June 1960 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md.

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 twin 40mm mounts, five single 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion two 1,000shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCE-904 107k c. 1947
Midway Island
Bill Lambert, former RDM3/c
Crew member 1947/1948

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DANFS History entry located on 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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