High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Asheville (PF-1) was an Asheville class patrol frigate of the United States Navy that served during World War II. She was laid down on 10 March 1942 as HMS Adur (K 269) by Canadian Vickers Ltd. in Montreal, Canada. She was launched on 22 August 1942 and transferred to the United States Navy prior to completion. On 1 December 1942, she was commissioned in Montreal as USS Asheville (PG-101), a patrol gunboat. She was reclassified as USS Asheville (PF-1) on 15 April 1943. She was decommissioned on 14 January 1946 at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia and struck from the Navy Register on 25 February 1946. She was sold on 15 June 1946 to the United Boat Service Corporation in New York, and later resold to Argentina where she was renamed Hercules and later Juan B. Azopardo (GC 11). She was stricken in 1973, but her fate beyond that is not reported in secondary sources.