PCE class

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USS PCE-899
USS PCE-899
Overview
Type Escort - submarine
units 68 built
period of service

from 1943

Technical specifications
displacement

640  ts light; 850–903 ts full

length

56.24 meters (184 '6 ")

width

10.06 meters (33 ')

Draft

2.87 meters (9 '5 ")

crew

99-100

drive

2 GM -12-567A- diesel engines with 1,800  bhp , 2 shafts

speed

15.7  knots (29.1 km / h)

Armament

1 3 "/ 50 -Schiffsgeschütz,
3 40-mm twin guns,
5 20 mm machine guns,
2 water bombs running racks,
4 Wasserbombe mortar,
1 Hedgehog

Patrol Craft Escort ( PCE ) was the name of the US Navy for escort - anti-submarine boats , one during the Second World War developed and deployed military type of ship a cheaper and faster operational alternative to the larger escort destroyers should represent.

Since in mid-1942, six months after the United States entered the war, there were still not enough destroyer escorts available to effectively secure the Allied convoys against German and Japanese submarines, it was decided to manufacture the PCE class . Although these escort submarines were smaller than escort destroyers, they were much faster and cheaper to build. They were based on the versatile Admirable class minesweepers that had been in production since early 1942.

The units were divided into four subclasses, which, however, are almost identical: The PCE-827 class comprised 15 ships, all of which were handed over to the Royal Navy under the lend lease agreement and used there as a Kil class . The PCE-842 class represented the largest series with 40 PCEs built. The 13 units of the PCE (R) -848 class ("R" for rescue ) were used as small hospital ships . The PCE-905 class was never used as planned, as the ships were converted to Admirable minesweepers during construction and most of them were canceled. A total of 68 escort submarines were completed.

At 56 meters (184 feet , 6  inches ) in length, the PCEs were  only slightly larger than the standard PC-461-class submarines , but had twice the displacement at about 900  tons . They reached a speed of 15.7  knots and had a crew of 99 and 100 men respectively. In contrast to the usual submarine hunting boats, which were only used near the coast, the PCEs were also used in the high seas because of their escort duties, where they had to struggle with the swell and therefore had to be made more stable than the usual patrol ships. The standard armament of the ships included a 3 "/ 50 -Schiffsgeschütz, three 40-mm twin guns, five 20-mm machine guns, two depth charges running racks, four depth charge mortar and a hedgehog .

Several PCEs were converted into command ships for landing operations ( Amphibious Control Vessels , PCE (C) ); Furthermore, three units of the PCE (R) -848 class were converted into communication ships, as the large sanitary rooms there were ideally suited for the installation of technical devices.

Most PCEs were quickly retired after the World War. Many were given to allied states, including 8 to South Korea , 7 to Mexico , 5 to the Philippines , 3 each to the Republic of China and South Vietnam, and 2 each to Burma , Ecuador and Cuba . The three South Vietnamese boats also reached the Philippines in 1975, where the Miguel Malvar corvette class was created from the PCE and Admirable units . Four units were temporarily used by the US Coast Guard . In the 1950s, the boats that remained with the Navy were given their own names in addition to their previous numbers.

In addition to the four classes mentioned above , the PCE-1604 class (Roofdier class) built in the early 1950s as part of the Military Defense Assistance Pact for the Dutch Navy was classified as PCE by the Navy, but this differs considerably from the remaining units and is therefore considered separately.

Ship list

PCE-827 class ( Kil class ):

PCE-842 class :

USS Lamar (PCE-899) , circa 1963
  • USS PCE-842 (originally planned as PCE (Rescue), later called Marfa , in 1961 as Tang Po of South Korea, sunk by North Korea in 1967)
  • USS PCE-843 (originally planned as PCE (Rescue), later called Skowhegan )
  • USS PCE-844 (originally planned as PCE (Rescue), sold to Mexico in 1947 as Pedro Sainz De Barandas )
  • USS PCE-845 (originally planned as PCE (Rescue), later called Worland , sunk as an artificial reef in 1994)
  • USS PCE-846 (originally planned as PCE (Rescue), later called Eunice , 1960 as Esmeraldes to Ecuador)
  • USS PCE-847 (originally planned as PCE (Rescue), sent to Mexico in 1947 as David Porter )
  • Numbers 848 to 860 see PCE (R) -848 class
  • PCE-861 to PCE-866 not built
  • USS PCE-867 (1948 as Yung Tai to the Republic of China)
  • USS PCE-868 (1947 as Virgilio Uribe to Mexico)
  • USS PCE-869 (1946 as Yung Hsin to the Republic of China, later Wei Yuan )
  • USS PCE-870 (later named Dania , in 1961 as Pyok Pa to South Korea)
  • USS PCE-871 (1947 as Blas Godinez to Mexico)
  • USS PCE-872 (1947 as Caribe to Cuba)
  • USS PCE-873 (reclassified to PCE (C) in 1974 as Han San to South Korea)
  • USS PCE-874 (later called Pascagoula , 1960 as Manabi to Ecuador)
  • USS PCE-875 (1947 as Tomas Marin to Mexico)
  • USS PCE-876 ( entered service as YDG-8 , later Lodestone (ADG-8) )
  • USS PCE-877 (reclassified to PCE (C), later training ship and renamed Havre )
  • USS PCE-878 (later Minelayer Buttress (ACM-4) )
  • USS PCE-879 (commissioned as YDG-9 , later Magnet (ADG-9) , sunk as a target ship in 1976)
  • USS PCE-880 (later called Ely )
  • USS PCE-881 (1948 as Cebu to the Philippines)
  • USS PCE-882 (reclassified to PCE (C), 1974 as Ro Ryang to South Korea)
  • USS PCE-883 (later YDG-10 and Deperm (ADG-10) , sunk as a target ship in 1982)
  • USS PCE-884 (1948 as Negros Occidental to the Philippines)
  • USS PCE-885 (1948 as Leyte to the Philippines)
  • USS PCE-886 (reclassified to PCE (C), later called Banning )
  • PCE-887 to PCE-890 not built
  • USS PCE-891 (1948 as Pangasinan to the Philippines)
  • USS PCE-892 (later called the training ship and Somerset , sold to South Korea in 1961 as Ryul Po )
  • USS PCE-893 (1947 as Siboney to Cuba)
  • USS PCE-894 (later called Farmington , 1965 as Yan Taing Aung to Burma)
  • USS PCE-895 (later called Crestview , fled to South Vietnam in 1961 as Dong Da II , fled to the Philippines in 1975 and renamed Sultan Kudarat )
  • USS PCE-896 (reclassified to PCE (C), 1964 to the Coast Guard, 1974 to South Korea)
  • USS PCE-897 (1948 as Iloilo to the Philippines)
  • USS PCE-898 (reclassified to PCE (C), 1974 as Okpo to South Korea)
  • USS PCE-899 (later named Lamar , assigned to the Coast Guard in 1964)
  • USS PCE-890 (later called Groton )
  • USS PCE-891 (commissioned as USS Parris Island (AG-72) )
  • USS PCE-892 (later called Portage )
  • USS PCE-893 (later named Batesburg , 1961 as Sa Chon to South Korea)
  • USS PCE-894 (later called Gettysburg )

PCE (R) -848 class :

USS PCE (R) -848 , August 1944
  • USS PCE (R) -848 (converted into a communications ship, damaged in an air raid near New Guinea in 1944)
  • USS PCE (R) -849 (converted into a communication ship, later called Somersworth , reclassified as the experimental ship EPCE (R))
  • USS PCE (R) -850 (converted into a communication ship, later called Fairview , reclassified as the experimental ship EPCE (R))
  • USS PCE (R) -851 (later called Rockville , reclassified as experimental ship EPCE (R), 1969 as San Andres to Colombia)
  • USS PCE (R) -852 (later called Brattleboro , reclassified as the experimental ship EPCE (R), 1966 as Ngoc Hoi in South Vietnam, fled to the Philippines in 1975 and renamed Miguel Malvar )
  • USS PCE (R) -853 (later called Amherst , fled to South Vietnam as Van Kiep II in 1970 , fled to the Philippines in 1975 and renamed Datu Marikudo )
  • USS PCE (R) -854
  • USS PCE (R) -855 (later called Rexburg , reclassified as the experimental ship EPCE (R))
  • USS PCE (R) -856 (later called Whitehall )
  • USS PCE (R) -857 (later called Marysville , reclassified as the EPCE (R) experimental ship)
  • USS PCE (R) -858 (1946 as USCGC Jackson (WPC-120) to the Coast Guard)
  • USS PCE (R) -859
  • USS PCE (R) -860 (1946 as USCGC Bedloe (WPC-121) to the Coast Guard)

PCE-905 class ( Admirable mine sweeper ):

Kristina Brahe (formerly USS PCE-830 ) in Savonlinna , 2008
  • USS Execute (AM-232) ( PCE-905 , sent 1962 as DM-03 to Mexico, later General Juan N. Méndez )
  • USS Facility (AM-233) ( PCE-906 , 1962 as DM-04 to Mexico)
  • USS Gavia (AM-363) ( PCE-907 , sent as Yung Chun to the Republic of China in 1946 )
  • USS Fixity (AM-235) ( PCE-908 )
  • USS Flame (AM-236) ( PCE-909 )
  • USS Fortify (AM-237) ( PCE-910 )
  • USS Adjutant (AM-351) ( PCE-911 )
  • USS Bittern (AM-352) ( PCE-912 )
  • USS Breakhorn (AM-353) ( PCE-913 )
  • USS Cariama (AM-354) ( PCE-914 )
  • USS Chukor (AM-355) ( PCE-915 )
  • USS Creddock (AM-356) ( PCE-916 , 1967 as Yan Gyi Aung to Burma)
  • USS Dipper (AM-357) ( PCE-917 )
  • USS Dotterel (AM-358) ( PCE-918 )
  • USS Drake (AM-359) ( PCE-919 , converted to support ship YDG-11 immediately after completion , later Ampere (ADG-11) )
  • USS Driver (AM-360) ( PCE-920 )
  • PCE-921 to PCE-934 not built
  • PCE-935 to PCE-946 converted to PCE (R), but not completed
  • PCE-947 to PCE-976 not built

Web links

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