INDEPENDENCIA (A-401) class

 1 INDEPENDENCIA-class PATROL SHIP (PS)(ex-USCG BALSAM class)

 Name            Pendant   Launched         Commissioned    Status

 INDEPENDENCIA   A-401     April 15, 1943   Nov. 20, 1943   Active
   (ex-USCGC SWEETGUM, WLB-309)

This is a ship from the former U.S. Coast Guard BALSAM class; she is robustly constructed. Decommissioned from the U.S. Coast Guard and stricken on April 12, 2002; she was transferred the same day to Panama.

Active.

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