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PCE-1607

PCE-1607 was built for The Netherlands.
PCE-1604 Class Patrol Craft Escort/Roofdier (Predator) Class Corvette: Laid down 15 November 1952 as PCE-1607 by Avondale Marine Ways Inc., New Orleans, LA; Launched, 2 January 1954; Commissioned, 26 March 1954 as the Dutch Corvette HRNLMS Wolf (F 817); Scrapped in 1985.
Specifications: Displacement 402 t.; Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 18.7 kts.; Complement 63; Armament one 3"/50 mount, two 40-mm mounts; two 20-mm mounts, Between 1959 and 1962 the boat was armed with a MK15 Hedgehog rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.
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HRNLMS Wolf (F 817), ex-PCE-1607, HRNLMS Hermelijn (F 819), ex-PCE-1605, HRNLMS Vos (F 820), ex-PCE-1606, and HRNLMS Panter (F 821), ex-PCE-1608 Royal Netherlands Navy Photo |
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C. March 1983 En route to Oporto, Portugal. |
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C. March 1983 En route to Oporto, Portugal. |
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C. March 1983 En route to Oporto, Portugal. |
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C. March 1983 En route to Oporto, Portugal. |
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There is no DANFS history available for PCE-1607 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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