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PCE-897


PCE-897 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.



RPS Iloilo call sign:
Delta - Uniform - November - Quebec

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 16 December 1942, at Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 3 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-897, 6 January 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Philippines in July 1948 and renamed Iloilo (PS 32).
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 860 t; Length 184'; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.5k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, three twin 40mm, two 20mm, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion two 2,000shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, twin screws.
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PCE-897 68k c. 1945
Apra Harbor, Guam
Photo by William H. Rogers who served on board as a Motor Machinist Mate in 1945
Charles Locker

There is no DANFS History currently available for PCE-897 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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