USS Callao (IX-205)
Externsteine after being captured by USCGC Eastwind | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Nazi Germany | |
| Name | Externsteine |
| Namesake | The Externsteine rock formation |
| Owner | Kriegsmarine |
| Builder | P. Smit Jr., Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Yard number | 570 |
| Laid down | 1943 |
| Launched | 1944 |
| Commissioned | 1944 |
| Identification | WBS 11 |
| Captured | 16 October 1944 |
| Fate | Captured by United States Coast Guard |
| United States | |
| Name | USCGC East Breeze |
| Owner | United States Coast Guard |
| Commissioned | 16 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned | December 1944 |
| Fate | Transferred to United States Navy |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Callao |
| Namesake | Callao, Peru |
| Owner | United States Navy |
| Commissioned | 24 January 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 10 May 1950 |
| Identification | IX-205 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, broken up in 1951 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,015 tons |
| Length | 183 ft (55.78 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft 10 in (9.40 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 11 in (4.24 m) |
| Installed power | Triple expansion steam engine with exhaust turbine, 750 shp |
| Propulsion | Screw propeller |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement |
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| Armament | 2-cm automatic cannon |
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USS Callao (IX-205), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Callao, a seaport in Peru. She was built for the Kriegsmarine as the weather ship and icebreaker Externsteine. The ship was captured on 16 October 1944 by USCGC Eastwind of the Greenland Patrol and was temporarily commissioned into the United States Coast Guard as USCGC East Breeze before being turned over to the United States Navy and commissioned as USS Callao in January 1945. The ship was sold out of service in 1950, and broken up the following year.