MS Brahe
Kristina Brahe in her civilian state in Savonlinna, 2008. | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Kilchrenan |
| Builder | Pullman-Standard Car Company, Chicago, Illinois |
| Laid down | 24 December 1942 |
| Launched | 13 June 1943 |
| Commissioned | 31 August 1943 |
| Stricken | 1947 |
| Identification |
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| Fate |
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| Status | in active service, as of 2010 |
| General characteristics as PCE | |
| Class & type | PCE-842-class patrol craft |
| Displacement | 640 long tons (650 t) |
| Length | 180 ft 6 in (55.02 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 8 in (2.95 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 100 |
| Armament |
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| General characteristics as cruise ship | |
| Tonnage | 1,105 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 56.8 m (186 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 10.08 m (33 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
| Decks | 4 |
| Propulsion | 2 × Caterpillar, 1,275 kW (1,710 hp) |
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| Capacity | 45 passenger cabins |
| Crew | 18 |
USS PCE-830 was a U.S.-built Patrol Craft Escort (PCE) vessel launched on 13 June 1943 by the Pullman-Standard Car Company of Chicago, Illinois. It was transferred to the Royal Navy and given the name HMS Kilchrenan in August 1943. As of 2020 it operates as the cruise ship MS Sunnhordland in Norway.