USS Whitehall (PCE-856)

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USS PCE (R) -856
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Ship data
flag United StatesUnited States (national flag) United States
other ship names
  • USS PCE-856
  • USS Whitehall (PCE-856)
Ship type Patrol boat / submarine
class PCE (R) -848 Class
Callsign November Yankee Foxtrot Dad
Shipyard Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co , Chicago
Launch April 21, 1944
Whereabouts Scrapped in 1973
Ship dimensions and crew
length
56.23 m ( Lüa )
width 10.40 m
Draft Max. 2.80 m
displacement 903  ts
 
crew 99
Armament

The USS PCE (R) -856 , later USS Whitehall (PCE-856) , was a submarine hunter with medical area of the PCE-class of the US Navy . She entered service on April 21, 1944 and was one of the US Navy's many escort ships during the Battle of Okinawa . After the war she was a training ship for reservists. In 1973 it was sold for demolition.

history

USS PCE (R) -856 with camouflage and small bow number, approx. 1944–1945

The ship entered service in April 1944 and remained in Chicago until early December 1944. On December 7, 1944, the ship left Chicago and headed for New Orleans across the rivers . When she reached New Orleans on December 18, 1944, she had to spend two months there because of engine damage. On February 17, 1945, she left New Orleans with a course for Miami . During this time until March 8, 1945, the team received further training.

After further repairs and completion of training, the ship was moved to Hawaii on April 11, 1945 , where PCE (R) -865 arrived on May 5, 1945. She left Oahu on May 19, with stops at Eniwetok , Guam and Ulithi and reached Okinawa on June 18, 1945, where she began her duties in the anti-submarine defense and was one of the participants in the operation when Kume Shima was captured .

On July 25, 1945 she left Okinawa for the Philippines , which she reached on July 30, 1945 at Leyte . She stayed there to make repairs. She left the Philippines on October 15 and reached Pearl Harbor on November 6, 1945. From 1946 to 1960 she was in the Reserve Fleet , but was not mothballed, but was part of the Naval Reserve Training Program. In 1950 and 1956 she was returned to active service, but remained with the Reserve Fleet, her port of operation was Philadelphia from where she had her operational area along the east coast of the United States . In 1956 it was also rededicated as PCE-856 Whitehall. From May 6, 1960 to her retirement on July 1, 1970, she was stationed in Cleveland . On May 17, 1973 it was sold for demolition.

The ship name Whitehall refers to the city of Whitehall in the state of New York , the birthplace of the Navy.

literature

  • William Veigele: PC Patrol Craft of World War II, A History of the Ships and Their Crews . Astral Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-9645867-1-1

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