USS Fairview

USS "Fairview" (EPCER-850) was a United States Navy "PCE(R)-848"-class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), in commission from April 1944 to May 1968. She was present at the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II.
Role.
The "PCER-848" class was an armed rescue ship built on the hull of the PCE (Patrol Craft Escort) by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co. in Chicago, Illinois. The ships were to serve three missions: damage control / firefighting; casualty treatment / evacuation; and patrol / guardship. Each ship's hospital contained 65 beds, with a surgical suite, and X-ray facilities. The medical department consisted of a staff of 11 doctors and hospital corpsmen. 
However, four of the class; "PCER-847", "-848", "-849" and "-850" were refitted and their hospital spaces converted into communications centers to support the US Army's landings in the Philippines and Japan.
Service history.
The ship was laid down on 6 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, and launched on 8 February 1944. Commissioned as USS "PCE(R)-850" on 17 April 1944, she was converted to a communications ship at Brisbane, Australia, in September 1944.
The ship was engaged in testing anti-submarine devices during the period 1948-1950 (based out of New London, Connecticut.
The ship was named USS "Fairview" on 15 February 1956, and was reclassified as EPCE(R)-850, an Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue) in 1959.
The ship was decommissioned on 1 May 1968, and later sold. 