Photo. 120284502.jpg (800×588) (navsource.org) By Historical Collections of the Great Lakes.
Laid down 24 July 1943 as PCE (R) 845 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL
Reclassified PCE-845
Launched 13 December 1943
Commissioned USS- PCE-845, 1 March 1944 at New Orleans, LA Placed in service in August 1947 as a Naval Reserve Training vessel assigned to the 8th Naval District (New Orleans)
Decommissioned, 22 December 1947 at Galveston, TX and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group
Recommissioned, 11 December 1950 at Chicago IL
Named Worland 15 February 1956
Decommissioned 25 May 1964 at Philadelphia, PA and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group
Struck from the Navy Register 1 June 1964 Acquired by the State of North Carolina, Cape Fear Technical Institute, Wilmington, NC, 6 August 1964 and renamed R/V Advance II
Sold in 1980 to the Standard Products Co., Inc. of Wilmington
Donated to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries 15 October 1993
Sunk 21 June 1994 off Kitty Hawk (Artificial Reef 145) as part of their artificial reef program.
Specifications:
Displacement 850 t
Length 184' 6"
Beam 33' 1"
Draft 9' 5"
Speed 15.7 kts.
Complement 99.
Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, three twin 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog)
Propulsion 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.
Following shakedown, PCE--845 departed