USS ARD-17
{{Short description|WW II navy dry dock in California, US}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=USSARD17inthePanamaCanal.jpg |Ship caption=USS ARD-17 in the Panama Canal on her way to Ecuadorian Navy at Rodman Naval Station Canal Zone. }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1944}} |Ship name=ARD-17 |Ship builder=Pacific Bridge Company, Alameda, California |Ship struck=1 December 1977{{cite web | url = {{Naval Vessel Register service craft URL|id=ARD17}} | title = Naval Vessel Register | publisher = United States Navy | date = 13 September 2000 | access-date = 2007-11-30 }} |Ship fate=Sold to Ecuador, 1 December 1977{{cite web | first = Gary P. | last = Priolo | url = http://www.navsource.net/archives/09/67/6717.htm | title = ARD-17 |website=NavSource | year = 2005 | access-date = 2007-11-30 }} }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=Ecuador |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Ecuador|naval}} |Ship name=Amazonas (DF 81){{cite web | url = http://www.coltoncompany.com/shipbldg/ussbldrs/wwii/merchantshipbuilders/pacificbridge.htm | title = Pacific Bridge Company, Alameda CA, WWII Construction Record | publisher = Colton Company | access-date = 2007-11-30 }} |Ship acquired=1 December 1977 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Ship class={{sclass|ARD-12|floating dry dock}} |Ship length={{convert|492|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|81|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{convert|6|ft|m|abbr=on}} }} |
History
ARD-17 was built at Pacific Bridge Company in Alameda, California and delivered to the Navy in early 1944.
In July and August 1944, ARD-17 served a support role in the liberation of Guam.{{cite web | url = http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/Lib/liberation15.htm | title = The War in the Pacific | work = LIBERATION — Guam Remembers: A Golden Salute for the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Guam | publisher = National Park Service | year = 1994 | access-date = 2007-11-30 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071025015839/http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/Lib/liberation15.htm |archive-date = 25 October 2007}}
In late September 1944, {{USS|Zuni|ATF-95}} towed ARD-17 from Guam to Palau.{{cite web | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/z1/zuni.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040314003606/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/z1/zuni.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 14 March 2004 | title = Zuni | work = Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships | publisher = United States Navy | access-date = 2007-11-30 }} On 30 November 1944 ARD-17 was damaged by a near miss from a Japanese bomber while anchored at Naval Base Kossol Roads, Palau.{{cite book | url = https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII | title = The official chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II | chapter = Chapter VI: 1944 | chapter-url = http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1944.html | first = Robert | last = Cressman | location = Annapolis, Maryland | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-1-55750-149-3 | oclc = 41977179 | access-date = 2007-11-30 | url-access = registration }}
In February 1945, ARD-17 and sister ship {{USS|ARD-16||2}} were at Leyte Gulf servicing ships returning from Iwo Jima and preparing for Okinawa.{{cite book | url = http://ibiblio.net/hyperwar/USN/BBBO/ | title = Beans, bullets, and black oil; the story of fleet logistics afloat in the Pacific during World War II | first = Worrall Reed | last = Carter | author-link = Worrall Reed Carter | location = Washington, D.C. | publisher = Department of the Navy | year = 1953 | oclc = 781884 | chapter = Chapter XXV; Operation ICEBERG: The Okinawa Campaign; The Forces Involved--Staging Logistics | chapter-url = http://ibiblio.net/hyperwar//USN/BBBO/BBBO-25.html | page = 317 | access-date = 2007-11-30 }}
After the war, she eventually was 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.
On 1 December 1977, ARD-17 was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register, and sold the same day to Ecuador under the Security Assistance Program. Renamed Amazonas (DF-81), her current fate is unknown.
References
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External links
- {{navsource|09/67/6717|ARD-17}}
{{ARD-12 class auxiliary repair dock}}
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Category:ARD-12-class floating drydocks
Category:Ships built in Alameda, California
Category:World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Category:Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Category:Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Ecuadorian Navy