USS PCE-872

USS PCE-872 was a for the United States Navy during World War II. She was renamed Caribe after being acquired by the Cuban Navy on 1 October 1947.

History

PCE-872 was laid down by Albina Engineer & Machine Works, Portland on 30 January 1943 and launched on 24 March 1943. She was commissioned on 29 November 1943.
On 24 July 1945, her alongside USS PC-803 and USS PC-804 scuttled the stricken destroyer escort USS Underhill after being hit by a kaiten launched torpedo from I-53. On 20 August of the same year, she was reclassified to PCEC-872.
After the war, she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission and later sold to Cuba and renamed Caribe in the early 1950s. She was reclassified to.