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33)PCE 874 PATROL CRAFT ESC

Photo. www.navsource.org By Harry Kallbach taken 1953.

Laid down, 1 March 1943 at Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon

Launched, 11 May 1943

Commissioned USS PCE-874, 31 December 1943

Decommissioned 25 November 1946 at New Orleans, LA and placed in service the same day as a Naval Reserve training ship

Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists assignment as a Naval Reserve vessel as August 1947

Named Pascagoula, 15 February 1956

Placed out of service and struck from the Navy Register 1 May 1959

Transferred 5 December 1960, on loan, under the Military Assistance Program to Ecuador and renamed BAE Manabi (E-02)

Reclassified E-23 later in 1960

Reclassified P-23 in 1970

Sold to Ecuador 30 August 1978

Struck from Ecuadorian Navy list in 1980

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 850 t.

Length 184' 6".

Beam 33' 1".

Draft 9' 5".

Speed 15.7 kts.

Complement 99.

Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, three twin 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog)

Propulsion 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

After shakedown off San Diego, PCE--874 transited the Panama Canal 2 March 1944 and escorted SS Esso Baytown to the port of Aruba, Netherlands West Indies, then proceeded to Recife, Brazil to conduct ASW exercises with Brazilian submarines. This duty was followed with repeated escort voyages to Trinidad and down the South American coast to Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. PCE--874 departed Recife 29 November with a merchant convoy bound for Key West, Fla., where she arrived 11 December.

Photo. www.navsource.org By Orson Rathburn Jr. USS PCE 874 in a souvenir card enters Havana Harbor.

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