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Worland (PCE-845)
ex-PCE(R)-845

Call sign:
November - Uniform - Yankee - Bravo

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort:

Laid down 24 July 1943 as PCE(R)-845 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL

Reclassified PCE-845

Launched 13 December 1943

Commissioned USS PCE-845, 1 March 1944 at New Orleans, LA

Placed in service in August 1947 as a Naval Reserve Training vessel assigned to the 8th Naval District (New Orleans)

Decommissioned, 22 December 1947 at Galveston, TX and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group

Recommissioned, 11 December 1950 at Chicago IL

Named Worland 15 February 1956

Decommissioned 25 May 1964 at Philadelphia, PA and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group

Struck from the Navy Register 1 June 1964

Acquired by the State of North Carolina, Cape Fear Technical Institute, Wilmington, NC, 6 August 1964 and renamed R/V Advance II

Sold in 1980 to the Standard Products Co., Inc. of Wilmington

Donated to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries 15 October 1993

Sunk 21 June 1994 off Kitty Hawk (Artificial Reef 145) as part of their artificial reef program.

Specifications:

Displacement 850 t.

Length 184' 6"

Beam 33' 1"

Draft 9' 5"

Speed 15.7 kts.

Complement 99

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, three twin 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors and one depth charge thrower (hedgehog)

Propulsion: Two 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS PCE-845
	239k	28 May 2011 Master-at-Arms badge (c. 1940s) found on the beach at the northern side of Hammond Bay in Lake Huron, MI	Barbara Knight
USS Worland (PCE 845)
	61k	-	Barbara Knight	Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
	114k	c. 1950's Undated post card Caption on reverse side: THE PUBLIC DOCK. Located at the foot of Main Street, within the harbor, which facilitaes Erie, Pennsylvania, with access to and from world ports for export and import to and from the Great Lakes industrial belt.	Tim McLaughlin Flagship Niagara League Erie Maritime Museum 150 East Front Street Erie Pa 16507
120284507	124k	Brodhead Naval Armory Reservists in Detroit, 1953. Wire Photo.	Eben Ives
	304k	c. Winter 1958/1959 Chicago, IL Alongside Navy pier	James G. Brown
	96k	c. Winter 1958/1959 Chicago, IL Alongside Navy pier	James G. Brown
	77k	c. 1960	Tom Kermen