MS Brahe

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.

[3] Kilchrenan spent the Second World War based at Gibraltar patrolling west Africa and taking part in convoys.

Returned to U.S. Navy custody in December 1946, she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1947.

[1] She was purchased by Norwegian Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD) in 1947, rebuilt as a passenger ship and given the name Sunnhordland.

The ship was sold to Finland in 1974 as Kristina Brahe and until 2010 operated as a passenger ship by Kristina Cruises of Kotka, Finland, making short cruises in the Baltic Sea and Lake Saimaa.

A sister-ship, PCE-872