USN · PCE
AfloatPatrol craft escort (rescue), PCE(R)-855, later named Rexburg. Pullman-Standard, at Chicago, laid her down on 8 December 1943 and launched her on 10 April 1944. Commissioned at New Orleans on 1 November 1944, unnamed. Lieutenant Arnold C. Anderson, USNR, had her until 30 January 1945. The command list calls him a lieutenant (junior grade). Off Okinawa in 1945 she worked the radar-picket line as a rescue ship and hospital. Redesignated EPCER-855 on 7 June 1946 for Navy Electronics Laboratory research. Named Rexburg in 1955 or on 15 February 1956. Decommissioned and struck on 2 March 1970 and sold that October.
| Type | Patrol craft escort (PCE) |
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| Hull | PCE(R)-855 |
| Builder | Pullman-Standard, Chicago |
| Launched | 1944-04-10 |
| Commissioned | 1944-11-01 |
| Fate | Afloat. Decommissioned and struck on 2 March 1970. Sold on 28 October 1970 to National Metal and Steel Corp. at Terminal Island, California. Later carried as Asia, and as Excalibur, one spelling of that name being Excaliber, and as the fishing vessel Atlantic Breeze, among other names. What became of her after about 2009 is not known. |
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