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