Rolla PC-483

Rolla

(PC-483: dp. 295, 1. 173'8"; b. 23'; dr. 10'10"; s. 20 k.; cpl. 58; a. 2 3", 2 dct., 2 dep.; cl. PC-4ffl)

Rolla was laid down as PC-48S on 31 December 1940 by the Consolidated Ship Builders Corp.; launched 25 October 1941; sponsored by Mrs. J. M. Irish, wife of Rear Adm. J. M. Irish delivered to the Navy 9 March 1942, and commissioned 12 March 1942, Lt. I. H. Cammern, USNR in command

Fitted out at Brooklyn, PC-48S sailed south to Miami where after shakedown, she remained as a schoolship for the Submarine Training Center. Ordered to the west coast at the end of 1942, she sailed from Florida 11 January 1943 and reported for training ship duties at Treasure Island 3 February. There for 9 months, she performed minor patrol aDd escort duties in addition to her primary assignment; and, on 3 November, she sailed west. Ten days later she reported to Commander, Hawaiian Sea Frontier for escort and patrol work. So employed in the Hawaiian Islands through the end of 1945, she got underway for return to the east coast on 22 January 1946. Between 1 Marchand 3 April she Drepared for inactive duty at Key West, Fla., then, on 6 April, joined the 16th (Inactive) Fleet at Green Cove Springs' Fla. Decommissioned 18 June, she was placed in service, in reserve and was totally inactivated in December 1947. PC-488 renamed Rolla 15 February 1956, remained in the Reserve Fleet, herthed in Florida, until struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1960.