USS Rexburg
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USS Rexburg (EPCE(R)-855) was built as a PCE(R)-848-class rescue escort patrol craft for the United States Navy during World War II. She was unnamed until 1956. After working through the 1950s and 60s as an oceanographic research vessel for the Navy Electronics Laboratory, Rexburg was decommissioned in 1970 and sold to the Church of Scientology as MV Excaliber.[1]
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USS Rexburg at the Navy Electronics Laboratory in the 1960s with the bow of USS Baya in the foreground | |
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United States | |
Name | PCE(R)-855 |
Builder | Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Illinois |
Laid down | 8 December 1943 |
Launched | 10 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 1 November 1944 |
Renamed | USS Rexburg (EPCER-855), February 1956 |
Decommissioned | 2 March 1970 |
Identification | IMO number: 7732963 |
Fate | transferred to the Church of Scientology as MV Excaliber, 1970 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | PCE(R)-848-class patrol craft |
Displacement | 914 Tons (Full Load) |
Length | 184.5 ft (56.2 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 9.75 ft (2.97 m) |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) (maximum), |
Range | 6,600 nmi (12,200 km; 7,600 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
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