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Kilbernie

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Kilbirnie (ex-BEC1, ex-PCE827)	Z01		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	10.1942	2.5.1943	7.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilbride (ex-BEC2, ex-PCE828)	Z02		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	11.1942	15.5.1943	7.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilchatten (ex-BEC3, ex-PCE829)	Z03		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	12.1942	27.5.1943	8.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilchrenan (ex-BEC4, ex-PCE830)	Z04		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	12.1942	13.6.1943	8.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kildary (ex-BEC5, ex-PCE831)	Z05		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	1.1943	26.6.1943	9.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kildwick (ex-BEC6, ex-PCE832)	Z06		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	2.1943	10.7.1943	9.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilham (ex-BEC7, ex-PCE833)	Z07		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	2.1943	2.8.1943	10.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilkenzie (ex-BEC8, ex-PCE834)	Z08		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	3.1943	19.8.1943	10.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilkhampton (ex-BEC9, ex-PCE835)	Z09		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	3.1943	3.9.1943	10.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilmalcolm (ex-BEC10, ex-PCE836)	Z10		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	4.1943	17.9.1943	11.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilmarnock (ex-BEC11, ex-PCE837)	Z11		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	4.1943	1.10.1943	11.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilmartin (ex-BEC12, ex-PCE838)	Z12		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	5.1943	13.10.1943	11.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilmelford (ex-BEC13, ex-PCE839)	Z13		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	5.1943	23.10.1943	12.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilmington (ex-BEC14, ex-PCE840)	Z14		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	5.1943	2.11.1943	12.1943	to USA 12.1946
Kilmore (ex-BEC15, ex-PCE841)	Z15		Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA	6.1943	9.11.1943	12.1943	to USA 12.1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	795
Displacement full, t	903
Length, m	54.9 wl 56.2 oa
Breadth, m	10.1
Draught, m	2.74
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel oil 140
Endurance, nm(kts)	8500(12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 3 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk 1.2, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (40)
Electronic equipment	SL radar, QHA sonar
Complement	96

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Project history

Royal Navy has ordered in 1941 in the USA 150 large submarine chasers of РСЕ type, for the delivery by lend-lease. After joining of the US to war almost all of them were commissioned by USN, Royal Navy received only 15 ships, one time they were classified as patrol sloops, later as corvettes.

Modernizations

None.

1/1946: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 3 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (40), SL radar, QHA sonar

Naval service

No significant events.