Description:Ship 1891

CE(R)-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue):

Originally planned as PCE-852 but reclassified PCE(R)-852 in June 1943 Laid down 28 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL Launched 1 March 1944 Commissioned USS PCE(R)-852, 26 May 1944 at New Orleans, LA Reclassified as an Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), EPCE(R)-852 in 1946 Named Brattleboro 15 February 1956 Decommissioned 1 November 1965 at Philadelphia, PA and struck from the Navy list Transferred to South Vietnam 11 July 1966 and renamed Ngoc Hoi (HQ-12) Escaped to the Philippines in 1975 after the fall of South Vietnam Renamed RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19) Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 903 t. Length 184' 6" Beam 33' 1" Draft 9' 5" Speed 15.7 kts. Complement 99 Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, four 20mm mounts, four depth charge projectors, one Hedgehog and two depth charge tracks Propulsion: Two 1,000bhp General Motors diesel engines (12-567A starboard engine and 12-567B port engine), Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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