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ROKS Dangpo (PCEC 56)

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Main page ROKS Dangpo (PCEC 56) was a patrol craft of the Republic
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Contents of Korea Navy (ROKN). Originally built as USS PCE-842, a
Current events PCE-842-class patrol craft for the United States Navy during United States
Random article World War II. Dangpo was acquired by South Korea on 13 Name PCE-842
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December 1961 and sunk by North Korean coastal artillery Builder Pullman Standard Car, Chicago
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fire on 19 January 1967. Laid down 12 June 1943
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Launched 14 November 1943
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Commissioned 29 January 1944
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Renamed USS Marfa (PCE-842), 15 February
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Fate Transferred to South Korea, 13
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PCE(R)‑842 on 19 June 1943; again reclassified PCE‑842 General characteristics
Wikidata item Class and type PCE-842-class patrol craft (in U.S.
on 15 July 1943; launched 14 November 1943; placed in
Navy service)
Print/export ferry commission 14 November 1943 for transfer down the
Displacement 914 Tons (Full Load)
Download as PDF Mississippi River; and commissioned at New Orleans, on 29
Length 184.5 ft (56.2 m)
January 1944, Lt. G. C. Homans in command.
Languages Beam 33 ft (10 m)
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After shakedown along the mast of Florida, PCE‑842 Draft 9.75 ft (2.97 m)
Edit links departed Key West 15 March 1944 for convoy escort duty Installed 2,200 hp (1,600 kW)
under the 4th Fleet out of Trinidad, British West Indies. It power
reached Teteron Bay 20 March and on the 31st sailed on its Propulsion Main: 2 × GM 12-278A diesel engines
initial escort run. For the next 6 months, PCE‑842 guarded Auxiliary: 2 × GM 6-71 diesel engines
convoys between Trinidad and Recife, Brazil, conducting with 100KW gen and 1 × GM 3-268A
diesel engine with 60KW gen
intensive antisubmarine training between escort voyages.
Speed 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) (maximum),
Arriving Key West 3 December, she left Florida 21 January Range 6,600 nmi (12,200 km; 7,600 mi) at 11
1945 with three sister ships for the Panama Canal and knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Hollandia, New Guinea, arriving 1 March. Nine days later it Complement 79
sailed via the Palaus for duty with the local defense forces of Armament 1 × Mk.26 3"/50 caliber gun dual
the Philippine sea frontier, and for the remainder of the war purpose gun

conducted antisubmarine patrols and gave escort service for 3 × single Bofors 40 mm gun
4 × Mk.10 Oerlikon 20 mm guns
the massive volume of shipping moving about the
4 × M2 .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns
Philippines.

Following the Surrender of Japan, PCE‑842 remained in the western Pacific as a weather station ship, ranging
from the Philippines to the Marshall Islands. It returned to San Pedro, California, 29 August 1947, then sailed via
the Panama Canal for New Orleans, arriving 28 September.

PCE‑842 decommissioned at New Orleans 7 November 1947 and immediately began duty as a Naval Reserve
training ship, cruising the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, and visiting Mexico and Cuba.

PCE‑842 trained the Naval Reserve until 13 June 1955, when it sailed to Green Cove Springs to enter the
Atlantic Reserve Fleet 17 August. While berthed at Green Cove Springs, it was named Marfa (PCE‑842) on 15
February 1956 after Marfa, Texas. On 20 March 1961 it was authorized for transfer to South Korea. The ship's
name was struck from the Navy list on 1 June 1961.

South Korean service [edit]

Under terms of the Military Assistance Program, the ship was transferred to South Korea on 13 December 1961.
Commissioned as ROKS Dangpo (PCEC 56), it served in the ROKN until sunk in the Sea of Japan north of the
maritime demarcation line off the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula by North Korean coastal artillery on 19
January 1967. Thirty-nine of the 79-man crew were killed.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can
be found here .

Categories: PCE-842-class patrol craft 1943 ships

Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Republic of Korea Navy Maritime incidents in 1967
North Korea–South Korea relations Ships sunk by coastal artillery Shipwrecks in the Sea of Japan

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