USS Resourceful
{{Short description|AFDM-3-class dry dock of the United States Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image =File:USS Resourceful (AFDM-5) and USNS Spica (T-AFS-9) at Subic Bay.jpg | Ship caption = USS Resourceful and USNS Spica }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United States | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|United States|naval}} | Ship name = Resourceful | Ship namesake = Resourceful | Ship cost = | Ship ordered = | Ship awarded = | Ship builder = Everett Pacific Shipbuilding Co. | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship sponsor = | Ship christened = | Ship completed = | Ship acquired = 1 February 1943 | Ship commissioned = February 1943 | Ship decommissioned = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = yes | Ship recommissioned = | Ship decommissioned = 22 August 1997 | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship reclassified =AFDM-5, 1945 | Ship refit = | Ship struck = 22 August 1997 | Ship reinstated = | Ship homeport = *Subic Bay | Ship identification = *Callsign: NBGY
| Ship motto = *Alta Et Sica
| Ship nickname = | Ship honors = See Awards | Ship captured = | Ship fate = *Donated to Subic Drydock Co., 1999
| Ship notes = | Ship badge = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class =AFDM-3-class floating drydock | Ship displacement ={{convert|7,000|t|LT|0|abbr=on}} | Ship length ={{convert|552|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam ={{convert|124|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = | Ship draft ={{convert|7 |
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| Ship propulsion = | Ship speed ={{convert|22.9|kn|lk=in}} | Ship power ={{convert|1600|hp|0|abbr=on}} | Ship range = | Ship complement =4 officers, 146 enlisted | Ship capacity ={{convert|18,000|t|LT|0|abbr=on}} | Ship EW = | Ship armament = | Ship armor = | Ship notes = }} |
USS Resourceful (AFDM-5), (former YFD-21), was a AFDM-3-class floating dry dock built in 1943 and operated by the United States Navy.{{Cite web|date=29 June 2000|title=RESOURCEFUL (AFDM 5)|url=https://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AFDM_5.HTML|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107003417/http://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AFDM_5.HTML|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2016|access-date=7 February 2022|website=Naval Vessel Register}}
Construction and career
YFD-21 was built at the Everett Pacific Shipbuilding Shipyard, in Everett, Washington in 1943. She was commissioned in February 1943.{{Cite web|title=Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock (AFDM)|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/7301.htm|access-date=2022-02-07|website=www.navsource.org}}
Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, USS Chickasaw (AT-83) departed Seattle, Washington, on 11 March 1943 for Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, towing the floating dry dock YFD-21, and arrived on 30 March 1943.{{Cite web|title=Chickasaw III (AT-83)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/chickasaw-iii.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} Draco towed YFD-21 from Seattle by way of Pearl Harbor to Espiritu Santo, arriving 5 May 1943.{{Cite web|title=Draco|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/d/draco.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} On 4 July 1945, USS Wildcat (AW-2) shifted to YFD-21 for the remainder of her repairs.{{Cite web|title=Wildcat (AW-2)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wildcat.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} In 1945, the unnamed dry dock was re-designated AFDM-5. The USS Safeguard (ARS-50) added section G of AFDM-5 to her tow and continued on to Pearl Harbor on 29 July 1946, in company with three YTBs.{{Cite web|title=Safeguard|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/safeguard.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}}
During the Vietnam War, AFDM-5 was recommissioned and in 1962, was given the motto "Alta Et Sica", which translates to "High and Dry". She was based in Subic Bay for the rest of her career. After a short period drydocked in AFDM-5 at Subic Bay, the USS Benner (DD-807) sailed to Hong Kong for rest and recreation on the 31 January 1967.{{Cite web|title=Benner (DD-807)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/benner-i.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} The USS Albatross (MSC-289) entered the floating dry dock on the 15th and, by 25 October 1967, was underway for Sasebo.{{Cite web|title=Albatross VI (MSC 289)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/albatross-vi.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} USNS Corpus Christi Bay (T-ARVH-1) was in the floating drydock in 1968.{{Cite book|url=http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140417224219/http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2014|title=U.S. Navy All Hands magazine|date=January 1969}} USS Grasp (ARS-24) made another dry dock period but this time inside the AFDM-5, in late September 1968.{{Cite web|title=Grasp I (ARS-24)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/grasp-i.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} On 26 April 1969, the USS Abnaki (ATF-96) got underway bound for Guam with AFDM-5 in tow.{{Cite web|title=Abnaki (ATF-96)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/abnaki.html|access-date=2022-02-07|website=NHHC|language=en-US}}
USS Sanctuary (AH-17) was dry docked inside AFDM-5 in 1970.{{Cite web|title=USS Sanctuary (AH 17) WestPac Cruise Book 1969-70 - Events and Activities|url=https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/ah17-70/index_003.htm|access-date=2022-02-07|website=www.navysite.de}} In 1979, she was finally named Resourceful.
On 1 January 1987, USNS Spica (T-AFS-9) and USS Catawba (T-ATF-168) were dry docked inside Resourceful.{{Cite book|last1=Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Imaging Command. 1988-ca. 1993 (Predecessor)|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6485416|title=The combat stores ship USNS SPICA (T-AFS-9) rests on blocks in the medium auxiliary floating dry dock Resourceful (AFDM-5). The submarine tender USS PORTEUS (AS-19), with two Sturgeon class nuclear-powered attack submarines nested alongside, is on the right. The Naval Supply Depot is in the background|last2=Department of Defense. Defense Audiovisual Agency (Predecessor)|last3=Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. (1994 - 10/26/2007)|date=1987-01-01|series=Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1921 - 2008}}{{Cite web|date=1987-01-01|title=The fleet tug USNS CATAWBA (T-ATF-168) sits in the medium auxiliary floating dry dock Resourceful (AFDM-5) while undergoing routine hull maintenance|url=https://nara.getarchive.net/media/the-fleet-tug-usns-catawba-t-atf-168-sits-in-the-medium-auxiliary-floating-213aad|access-date=2022-02-07|website=The U.S. National Archives|language=en}} Later in the same year, USNS Silas Bent (T-AGS-26) was also dry docked.{{Cite book|url=http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140417224219/http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2014|title=U.S. Navy All Hands magazine|date=May 1987}}
In early 1990s, USS Kinkaid (DD-965) was being repaired on board the dry dock. On 19 April 1992, Resourceful was towed to Yokosuka after the closure of the U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay.{{Cite web|title=U.S. Navy tows its last drydock from Philippines|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/04/19/US-Navy-tows-its-last-drydock-from-Philippines/1013703656000/|access-date=2022-02-07|website=UPI|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Schultz|first=Jim|date=1 March 1993|title=DN-SC-95-00657 Floating dry dock AFDM-5 at US Fleet Activities Yokosuka 1993|url=http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#guid=62429c483acb4705ed55f40750166fd2963e819e|url-status=dead|access-date=18 March 2013|website=U.S. DefenseImagery|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924204910/http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#guid=62429c483acb4705ed55f40750166fd2963e819e}} On 22 August 1997, Resource was decommissioned for the last time and stricken on the same day. She would then be transferred to the Local Redevelopment Agency (LRA), in the Philippines on 6 April 1999.
The dry dock has kept the name AFDM-5 and provided repair services around the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Subic Drydock Co. Philippines|url=https://www.shipyards.gr/ship-repairs/far-east-pacific-ocean/Shiprepairs-FarEast-China/philippines/subic-drydock-co-philippines|access-date=2022-02-07|website=Shipyards Directory worldwide with locations map|language=en-gb}} In 2012, MV Logos Hope was dry docked inside AFDM-5.{{Citation|title=Logos Hope 2012 Dry Dock In Subic Bay, Philippines|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZCCyFaQLs|language=en|access-date=2022-02-07}} From 30 October 2017 to 15 February 2018, BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16) was dry docked inside of her.{{Cite news|date=February 15, 2018|title=BRP RAMON ALCARAZ|work=Subic Drydock Company|url=https://subicdock.com/brp-ramon-alcaraz/#respond}} From 26 March to 26 April 2018, she repaired the MV Lorcon Bacolod.{{Cite news|date=April 26, 2018|title=MV LORCON BACOLOD|work=Subic Drydock Corporation|url=https://subicdock.com/lorcon-bacolod/#respond}} In late 2018, the dry dock was seen sunk in port until it was removed in late 2021.Google Earth Pro
Awards
References
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- [http://olongapo-subic.blogspot.com/2011/08/floating-drydock-back-at-subic-freeport.html Floating drydock back at Subic Freeport]
- [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/04/19/US-Navy-tows-its-last-drydock-from-Philippines/1013703656000/ U.S. Navy tows its last drydock from Philippines]
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External links
- [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/7301.htm NavSource: Resourceful (AFDM-5)]
- [https://www.hullnumber.com/AFDM-5 Hull Number: AFDM-5 DEPLOYMENTS]
- [https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=PublicUnitProfile&type=Unit&ID=19246 TogetherWeServed: Resourceful (AFDM-5) Crew Members]
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Category:World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Category:Vietnam War auxiliary ships of the United States
Category:Floating drydocks of the United States Navy