USS PCE-872

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PCE-872
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Flag of the United States.svgUnited States
NamePCE-872
Builder Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland
Laid down30 January 1943
Launched24 March 1943
Commissioned29 November 1943
ReclassifiedPCEC-872
FateTransferred to Cuban Navy, 1 October 1947
History
Naval Jack of Cuba.svgCuba
NameCaribe
Acquired1 October 1947
ReclassifiedPE 201
Identification Pennant number: H 201
FateUnknown
General characteristics
Class and type PCE-842-class patrol craft
Displacement914 Tons (Full Load)
Length184.5 ft (56.2 m)
Beam33 ft (10 m)
Draft9.75 ft (2.97 m)
Installed power2,200 hp (1,600 kW)
Propulsion
  • Main: 2 × GM 12-278A diesel engines
  • Auxiliary: 2 × GM 6-71 diesel engines with 100KW gen and 1 × GM 3-268A diesel engine with 60KW gen
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) (maximum),
Range6,600 nmi (12,200 km; 7,600 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement79
Armament

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.

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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. [1]

On 24 July 1945, her alongside USS PC-803 and USS PC-804 scuttled the stricken destroyer escort 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).

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References

  1. Silverstone, p. 193

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