USS Fairview (EPCE(R)-850)

History
Name: USS Fairview
Builder: Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Illinois
Laid down: 6 October 1943
Launched: 8 February 1944
Commissioned: 17 April 1944, as USS PCE(R)-850
Decommissioned: 1 May 1968
Renamed: Fairview, 15 February 1956
Reclassified: EPCE(R)-850 (Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue)), 1959
Fate: Sold
General characteristics
Class & type: PCER-848 class armed rescue ship
Displacement: 903 long tons (917 t)
Length: 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m)
Beam: 33 ft 1 in (10.08 m)
Draft: 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × 1,800 bhp (1,342 kW) General Motors 12-567A diesel engines
  • Falk single reduction gear
  • 2 shafts
Speed: 15.7 knots (29.1 km/h; 18.1 mph)
Complement: 99 officers and enlisted
Armament:

USS Fairview (EPCER-850) was a United States Navy PCE(R)-848-class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), in commission from April 1944 to May 1968. She was present at the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II.[1]

Role

The PCER-848 class was an armed rescue ship built on the hull of the PCE (Patrol Craft Escort) by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co. in Chicago, Illinois. The ships were to serve three missions: damage control / firefighting; casualty treatment / evacuation; and patrol / guardship. Each ship's hospital contained 65 beds, with a surgical suite, and X-ray facilities. The medical department consisted of a staff of 11 doctors and hospital corpsmen.

However, four of the class; PCER-847, -848, -849 and -850 were refitted and their hospital spaces converted into communications centers to support the US Army's landings in the Philippines and Japan.

Service history

as USS PCE(R)-850

The ship was laid down on 6 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, and launched on 8 February 1944. Commissioned as USS PCE(R)-850 on 17 April 1944, she was converted to a communications ship at Brisbane, Australia, in September 1944.

The ship was engaged in testing anti-submarine devices during the period 1948-1950 (based out of New London, Connecticut.

The ship was named USS Fairview on 15 February 1956, and was reclassified as EPCE(R)-850, an Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue) in 1959.

The ship was decommissioned on 1 May 1968, and later sold.

References

  1. ↑ "Allied Ships Present in Tokyo Bay During the Surrender Ceremony, 2 September 1945". history.navy.mil. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
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