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Rockville (PCER / EPCER 851)


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Rockville served the Navies of the United States and Columbia.

PCER-848 Class Patrol Rescue Escort: Laid down, 18 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 22 February 1944; Commissioned USS PCER-851, 15 May 1944; Reclassified as an Experimental Patrol Craft Escort Rescue, EPCER-851, 15 October 1951; Named Rockville, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 21 December 1968; Transferred to Columbia in 1969 and renamed 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 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, three twin 40-mm; Propulsion two 900 bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines (engines replaced in 1969 with two eight cylinder, Lister Blackstone diesel engines), two shafts.


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