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Rockville (EPCE[R] 851)
ex-PCE(R)-851
Call sign:
November - Xray - Bravo - Victor
Rockville served the Navies of the United States and Columbia.
PCER-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue): Laid down, 18 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 22 February 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-851, 15 May 1944; Reclassified as an Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), EPCE(R)-851, 15 October 1951; Named Rockville, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned and struck from the Navy Register 21 December 1968; Transferred to Columbia in 1969 as ARC San Andres (BO 151), (Buque Oceanografico); Transferred to the Columbian Coast Guard in the early 1980s; Decommissioned in the late 1980s. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, two dct, two dcp Propulsion two 1,800 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.
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c. 1952
Bureau of Ships photo from Allied Escort Ships of World War II by Peter Elliott |
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