USS ARD-17

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Career (U.S.) United States Navy ensign
Name: ARD-17
Builder: Pacific Bridge Company
Alameda, California
Struck: 1 December 1977[1]
Fate: Sold to Ecuador, 1 December 1977[2]
Career (Ecuador)
Name: Amazonas (DF 81)[3]
Acquired: 1 December 1977
General characteristics
Class and type: ARD-12-class floating dry dock
Displacement: 5200 tons[2]
Length: 492 feet (150 m)[2]
Beam: 81 feet (25 m)[2]
Draft: 6 feet (1.8 m)[2]
Propulsion: None[2]

USS ARD-17 was an ARD-12-class floating dry dock built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Like most of the ships of her class, she was not named but known only by her designation.

ARD-17 was built at Pacific Bridge Company in Alameda, California and delivered to the Navy in early 1944.[3]

In July and August 1944, ARD-17 served a support role in the liberation of Guam.[4]

In late September 1944, USS Zuni (ATF-95) towed ARD-17 from Guam to Palau.[5] On 30 November 1944 ARD-17 was damaged by a near miss from a Japanese bomber while anchored at Kossol Roads, Palau.[6]

In February 1945, ARD-17 and sister ship USS ARD-16 were at Leyte Gulf servicing ships returning from Iwo Jima and preparing for Okinawa.[7]

After the war, she eventually returned to the United States, and for a time was laid up as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Naval Shipyard at Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

On 1 December 1977, ARD-17 was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register,[1] and sold the same day to Ecuador under the Security Assistance Program.[2] Renamed Amazonas (DF-81), her current fate is unknown.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Naval Vessel Register. United States Navy (2000-09-13). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Priolo, Gary P. (2005). ARD-17. NavSource Online. NavSource Naval History. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  3. ^ a b c Pacific Bridge Company, Alameda CA, WWII Construction Record. Colton Company. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  4. ^ The War in the Pacific. LIBERATION — Guam Remembers: A Golden Salute for the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Guam. National Parks Service (1994). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  5. ^ Zuni. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. United States Navy. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  6. ^ Cressman, Robert (2000). "Chapter VI: 1944", The official chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781557501493. OCLC 41977179. Retrieved on 2007-11-30. 
  7. ^ Carter, Worrall Reed (1953). "Chapter XXV; Operation ICEBERG: The Okinawa Campaign; The Forces Involved--Staging Logistics", Beans, bullets, and black oil; the story of fleet logistics afloat in the Pacific during World War II. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Navy, p. 317. OCLC 781884. Retrieved on 2007-11-30. 

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