USS Asheville (PF-1)
| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Asheville (PG-101) |
| Namesake: | Asheville, North Carolina |
| Builder: | Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal, Quebec |
| Laid down: | 10 March 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 August 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 1 December 1942 |
| Reclassified: | PF-1, 15 April 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 January 1946 |
| Struck: | 25 February 1946 |
| Homeport: | New York City |
| Fate: | Sold to Argentina |
| Career (Argentina) | |
| Name: | ARA Hercules (P-31) ARA Juan B. Azopardo (GC-11) |
| Acquired: | c. 1946 |
| Struck: | 1973 |
| Fate: | Fate unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | River-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 2,360 tons |
| Length: | 301 ft 6 in (91.90 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x 225 psi 3-drum express boilers 2 x 5,500 shp Canadian Vickers vertical triple expansion steam engines 2 x shafts |
| Speed: | 20.3 knots |
| Complement: | 194 |
| Armament: | 3 x 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts 2 x twin 40mm gun mounts 9 x 20mm gun mounts 2 x depth charge racks 8 x depth charge projectors 1 x Hedgehog depth charge projector |
USS Asheville (PF-1) was an Asheville class patrol frigate of the United States Navy that served during World War II. She was laid down on 10 March 1942 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. in Montreal, Canada as the River class frigate HMS Adur (K 269) to serve in the British Royal Navy . She was launched on 22 August 1942 but due to a lack of American vessels for convoy protection she was transferred to the United States Navy prior to completion. On 1 December 1942, she was commissioned in Montreal as USS Asheville (PG-101), a patrol gunboat. She was reclassified as USS Asheville (PF-1) on 15 April 1943.
Initially Asheville served on convoy escort but then transferred to anti-submarine patrols.
She was decommissioned in January 1946 at the Norfolk Navy Yard and struck from the Navy Register in February. She was sold in June 1946 and later resold to Argentina where she was renamed Hercules and later Juan B. Azopardo (GC 11). She was stricken in 1973, but her fate beyond that is not reported in secondary sources.
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