RV Pacific Escort

RV Pacific Escort

RV "Pacific Escort" is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

* RV Pacific Escort I (T-AGOR-26), an Army tugboat acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1985 as an escort for submarines and as a for-hire oceanographic research ship at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

* RV Pacific Escort II (IX-517), a "Robert D. Conrad"-class oceanographic research ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1965.

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