WHITEHALL PCE 856

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    PCE(R)-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue)
    Originally planned as Patrol Craft Escort (PCE) but reclassified Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue) (PCE(R)) June 1943
    Laid down December 17 1943 - Launched April 21 1944

  1. USS PCE(R)-856
    Commissioned November 11 1944 - Decommissioned June 23 1946

  2. PCE(R)-856
    Placed In Service July 1946 as a Naval Reserve Training Ship assigned to 4th Naval District

  3. USS PCE-856
    Recommissioned November 18 1950

  4. USS WHITEHALL PCE(R)-856
    Named February 15 1956

  5. USS WHITEHALL PCE-856
    Reclassified as Patrol Craft Escort (PCE) March 15 1962
    Decommissioned July 1 1970

    Struck from Naval Register July 1 1970

  6. DONNA MARIE (Merchant Service)
    Sold 1970 to Eastern Seaboard Pile-Driving of Montvale and renamed
    Converted to Tug 1974

  7. ATLANTIC SURF
    Sold 1980 to Standard Products Co. Inc. of Reedsville, VA and renamed

  8. ATLANTIC SHORE
    Sold to Omega Protein Inc. of Hammond, LA and renamed

    Fate unknown

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. Covers Page 1     (1964)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

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Other Information

NAMESAKE...A town in Washington County, New York

 


 

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