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Laid down as Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), PCE (R) 843, 25 June 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago IL
Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE 843
Launched 24 November 1943
Commissioned USS PCE-843, 30 January 1944 at New Orleans, LAPlaced in service as a Naval Reserve Training vessel in January 1947 and assigned to the 1st Naval District (Boston)
Decommissioned in March 1955 at Boston, MA and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston
Named Skowhegan 15 February 1956
Struck from the Naval Register in July 1960
Sold in 1961
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.
On 20 March 1944, PCE-843 completed shakedown out of