BCC Maria Camila (1920)

BCC Maria Camila

330px A photograph of BCC Maria Camila, c. 1943.
History
Rakeo
Name:	BCC Maria Camila
Namesake:	Dancer Maria Camila
Owner:	Rakeoian Navy
Port of registry:	Paragon
Builder:	Amevia Ship Construction
Cost:	₵2,500,000
Launched:	17 January 1920
Acquired:	21 March 1935
Commissioned:	3 December 1936
Nickname(s):	La Maria
Fate:	Abandoned and later seized by MNR members
Rakeo
Name:	BCC Koralo
Namesake:	Koralo Nikolao
Owner:	Rakeoian Navy
Port of registry:	Olino
Commissioned:	1 May 1952
Decommissioned:	17 April 1956
Fate:	Sold, confiscated by government, scrapped
General characteristics
Type:	Trawler
Displacement:	644 lt (655 t)
Armament:	1 × (4 in; 101.6 mm) cannon 2 x (2.5 in; 63.5 mm) AA 12 x depth charges

The trawler Maria Camila operated from 1920-1962, starting life as a fishing vessel in the dry docks of San Miguel de Martinez.

History

In 1935, it was purchased by the Republican Navy of Rakeo, and was equipped for anti-submarine warfare, being launched and commissioned in 1936. Under Captain Vicente Tamayo Piñón, it would go on to serve in Rakeo’s naval intervention in the Senvarian sea. Maria Camila developed a reputation for being unsinkable, surviving a deadly ambush by Miguelist submersibles in 1938 during an escort mission. When news of a widespread mutiny reached its crew in 1950, they abandoned it in port and fled.

The ship was seized and used for covert reconnaissance by elements of the Militants for National Revival. In 1952, it was given to the Stratocratic Authority, and moved to the 1st Provisional Flotilla, under the command of Admiral Ernesto Nikolao. He renamed it Koralo after his uncle, Koralo Nikolao. The ship once again saw combat in 1953 during the flotilla’s blockade against the city of Junfilo. It sustained damaged and returned to port for repairs, and would not see naval exchanges for 1954-1955.

It was decommissioned 17 April 1956, and was sold to a Rektiv-based fishing company. After its crew were implicated in the 1960 Freemont Strait massacre, the ship was seized and sold for scrap.

See also

• Trawler Vaneles (1936)
• 1960 Fishing war