Ethiopian Navy Service
In January 1962, Orca was loaned to Ethiopia under the Military Assistance Program. Sold outright to Ethiopia in March 1976, she served as the training ship Ethiopia (A-01), the Ethiopian Navy's largest ship, for almost 30 years.
In May 1991, at the end of Eritrean revolution, the independence of Eritrea made Ethiopia a landlocked country, and Ethiopia was among ten Ethiopian Navy ships to escape to Yemen. Never again operational, Ethiopia survived as a hulk in Yemen until she was sold for scrapping in 1993.
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