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PCE(R)-859
PCE(R)-848 Class Patrol Rescue Escort: Laid down, 14 January 1944 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 28 November 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-859, 10 March 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, three twin 40-mm; Propulsion two 1000 shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, two shafts.
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