USS PCE-872
 USS PCE-872
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | PCE-872 |
| Builder | Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland |
| Laid down | 30 January 1943 |
| Launched | 24 March 1943 |
| Commissioned | 29 November 1943 |
| Reclassified | PCEC-872 |
| Fate | Transferred to Cuban Navy, 1 October 1947 |
| History | |
 Cuba | |
| Name | Caribe |
| Acquired | 1 October 1947 |
| Reclassified | PE 201 |
| Identification | Pennant number: H 201 |
| Fate | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | PCE-842-class patrol craft |
| Displacement | 914 Tons (Full Load) |
| Length | 184.5 ft (56.2 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 9.75 ft (2.97 m) |
| Installed power | 2,200 hp (1,600 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) (maximum), |
| Range | 6,600 nmi (12,200 km; 7,600 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 79 |
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USS PCE-872 was a PCE-842-class patrol craft for the United States Navy during World War II. She was renamed Caribe (H 201) after being acquired by the Cuban Navy on 1 October 1947.
History[]
PCE-872 was laid down by Albina Engineer & Machine Works, Portland on 30 January 1943 and launched on 24 March 1943. She was commissioned on 29 November 1943.
On 24 July 1945, her alongside and scuttled the stricken submarine USS Underhill after being hit by a kaiten launched torpedo from I-53. On 20 August of the same year, she was reclassified to PCEC-872.
After the war, she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission and later sold to Cuba and renamed Caribe (H 201) in the early 1950s. She was reclassified to (PE 201).
References[]
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- PCE-842-class patrol craft
- 1943 ships