German weather ship Externsteine
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Externsteine after being captured by USCGC Eastwind
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 Nazi Germany
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| 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
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| Name: | USCGC East Breeze |
| Owner: | United States Coast Guard |
| Commissioned: | 16 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | December 1944 |
| Fate: | Transferred to United States Navy |
 United States
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| 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) |
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| Armament: | 2-cm automatic cannon |
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 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.
The ship was 183 feet (55.78 m) long, with a beam of 30 feet 10 inches (9.40 m) and a draught of 13 feet 11 inches (4.24 m). She had a displacement of 1,015 tons. She was powered by a 750 shp triple expansion steam engine with an exhaust turbine driving a single screw propeller, which could propel her at 10 knots (19 km/h).
The ship was built in 1943–44 as yard number 570 by P. Smit, Jr. Shipyard, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. Originally intended to be the trawler Mannheim for the Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei, Wesermünde, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine as Externsteine. She was launched in 1944, and completed in July of that year. The ship was originally named for the unusual Externsteine rock formation investigated by Heinrich Himmler for evidence of cultural significance to early Teutonic folklore and history.Externsteine had the identification number WBS 11. Her complement was nineteen crew plus eleven meteorologists. She was employed as a weather observation ship off Shannon Island on the northeast coast of Greenland to aid forecasting of storm events tactically significant to North Atlantic and European combat operations, but was captured on the night of 15 October–16 October 1944 by the American icebreaker USCGC Eastwind.
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