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31)PCE 845 PATROL CRAFT ESC



Photo. 120284502.jpg (800×588) (navsource.org) By Historical Collections of the Great Lakes.


Laid down 24 July 1943 as PCE (R) 845 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL


Reclassified PCE-845


Launched 13 December 1943


Commissioned USS- PCE-845, 1 March 1944 at New Orleans, LA Placed in service in August 1947 as a Naval Reserve Training vessel assigned to the 8th Naval District (New Orleans)


Decommissioned, 22 December 1947 at Galveston, TX and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group


Recommissioned, 11 December 1950 at Chicago IL


Named Worland 15 February 1956


Decommissioned 25 May 1964 at Philadelphia, PA and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group


Struck from the Navy Register 1 June 1964 Acquired by the State of North Carolina, Cape Fear Technical Institute, Wilmington, NC, 6 August 1964 and renamed R/V Advance II 


Sold in 1980 to the Standard Products Co., Inc. of Wilmington


Donated to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries 15 October 1993


Sunk 21 June 1994 off Kitty Hawk (Artificial Reef 145) as part of their artificial reef program.


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.


Following shakedown, PCE--845 departed Miami, Fla., on 18 April 1944, bound for Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies. The patrol escort operated with Admiral Jonas Ingram 4th Fleet, escorting coastal convoys between Port-of-Spain and Brazilian ports such as Recife, Bahia, Belem, and Rio de Janeiro until December. Departing Trinidad on the 7th, PCE--845 shaped a course for the Florida keys and a stint of training operations before departing Key West on 21 January 1945 and heading for the Pacific.


 

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