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U.S.S. ACADIA
(AD-42)SERVICE TO THE FINEST FROM THE FINEST
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The USS ACADIA (AD-42), a Yellowstone-class destroyer tender, was commissioned on 6 JUN 1981. Built by the National Steel and Shipbuilding of San Diego, USS ACADIA was homeported in San Diego after commissioning. ACADIA was commissioned into the era of standing US Naval presence in the Persian gulf. ACADIA repeatedly deployed through the Western Pacific and on into the Indian Ocean. In May 1987 she repaired the USS STARK after taking a missile strike from an Iraqi fighter. ACADIA was on hand for Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and repaired the mine damage of USS PRINCETON (CG-59). USS ACADIA served her country for 13 years, 6 months and 10 days, until decommissioned on 16 DEC 1994. The hulk of the ACADIA was disposed of during a Fleet SINKEX off Guam in September 2010.
The USS ACADIA (AD-42) deployment history and significant events of her service career follow:
AD-42 Deployments - Major Events
Add a AD-42 Shellback Initiation | Add a AD-42 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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FEB | 1941 | - | DEC | 1942 | Guantanamo Bay |
DEC | 1942 | - | JAN | 1945 | Middle Pacific |
FEB | 1978 | - | Keel Date: 14 FEB 1978 at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company San Diego CA | ||
JUL | 1979 | - | Launch Date: 28 JUL 1979 | ||
JUN | 1981 | - | Commissioned: 6 JUN 1981 | ||
JUN | 1982 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 JUN 1982 - Indian Ocean | ||
JUN | 1982 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 JUN 1982 - Indian Ocean | ||
JAN | 1983 | - | AUG | 1983 | West Pac-Indian Ocean |
JAN | 1983 | - | OCT | 1983 | West Pac |
MAR | 1983 | - | Shellback Initiation - 12 MAR 1983 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JUN | 1983 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 JUN 1983 - Indian Ocean | ||
JAN | 1985 | - | JUL | 1985 | West Pac |
SEP | 1985 | - | DEC | 1985 | Dry Dock |
MAR | 1987 | - | OCT | 1987 | Repair of the USS Stark |
MAR | 1987 | - | OCT | 1987 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
APR | 1987 | - | OCT | 1987 | indian ocean |
MAY | 1987 | - | JUN | 1987 | Repair of USS STARK FFG 31 |
AUG | 1987 | - | Shellback Initiation - 31 AUG 1987 - Indian Ocean | ||
AUG | 1987 | - | Shellback Initiation - 31 AUG 1987 - Indian Ocean | ||
MAR | 1988 | - | Shellback Initiation - 15 MAR 1988 - Indian Ocean | ||
NOV | 1988 | - | MAY | 1989 | West Pac |
APR | 1989 | - | Shellback Initiation - 2 APR 1989 - Indian Ocean | ||
JAN | 1990 | - | JAN | 1990 | Desert Storm |
JAN | 1990 | - | JAN | 1993 | Desert Storm |
JUL | 1990 | - | Shellback Initiation - 10 JUL 1990 - Pacific Ocean | ||
SEP | 1990 | - | JUN | 1991 | West Pac - Persian Gulf |
APR | 1992 | - | OCT | 1992 | West Pac |
SEP | 1992 | - | Shellback Initiation - 1 SEP 1992 - Pacific Ocean | ||
SEP | 1992 | - | Shellback Initiation - 1 SEP 1992 - Indian Ocean | ||
SEP | 1992 | - | Shellback Initiation - 1 SEP 1992 - Indian Ocean | ||
JAN | 1993 | - | DEC | 1993 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
DEC | 1993 | - | MAY | 1994 | West Pac |
JAN | 1994 | - | JUN | 1994 | West Pac |
JAN | 1994 | - | JUN | 1994 | West Pac-Indian Ocean |
JAN | 1994 | - | JUN | 1994 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JAN | 1994 | - | JUN | 1994 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
DEC | 1994 | - | Decommissioned: 16 DEC 1994 |
AD-42 General Specifications
Class: Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
Complement: 87 Officers and 1508 Enlisted
Displacement: 21916 tons
Length: 641 feet 10 inches
Beam: 85 feet
Draft: 24 feet
Final Disposition: Sunk September 2010 during Valiant Shield
USS ACADIA (AD-42)
Acadia (AD-42) was laid down on 14 February 1978 at San Diego
Calif.
by the National Steel and Shipbuilding
Co.; launched on 28 July 1979; sponsored by Mrs. Clarence R. Bryan
the wife of Vice-Admiral Clarence R. Bryan
Commander
Naval Sea Systems Command; and commissioned on 6 June 1981
Capt. Brenton P. Hardy in command.
Acadia completed her outfitting at her builders yard on 6 July and then made the brief trip to the Naval
Station
San Diego. After a month clearing details and getting ready
the destroyer tender embarked upon her shakedown
cruise on 7 August. That voyage took her to Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
and back to San Diego where she arrived on 28
August. When the ship returned to her home port
her crew concentrated their efforts on honing their skills as
repairmen; and
except for a few brief periods at sea for underway training and propulsion plant certification
Acadia spent the rest of the year in port at San Diego.
The destroyer tender began 1982 as a fully operational mobile repair facility of the Pacific Fleet. She provided
her services at San Diego until the beginning of February when she moved to Naval Air Station
Alameda. At the
end of the month
she steamed back to San Diego. Late in May
the ship embarked Naval Academy and NROTC midshipmen
for their summer training cruise. On 14 June
Acadia stood out of San Diego on her way to Hawaii. The destroyer
tender repaired ships of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor from 22 June to 25 July. Returning to San Diego in August
she spent the remainder of the year in the immediate vicinity of her home port. Though she put to sea occasionally
for training purposes
the majority of the time
she was in San Diego doing repair work for the fleet.
In December 1982
Acadia began preparations for the first overseas assignment of her career. On 4 January
1983
the destroyer tender put to sea for a journey that took her not only to the Orient but into the Indian Ocean
and to the east coast of Africa as well. Acadia stopped at Pearl Harbor between the 12th and the 14th and
after another 10 days at sea
arrived in Yokosuka
Japan
on the 24th. Acadia remained in Yokosuka for almost
a month then visited Sasebo before setting a course for the Philippines on 23 February. The ship entered Subic
Bay
Luzon
on 27 February and performed repairs until 3 March when she put to sea for duty in the Indian Ocean.
She reached the American outpost on Diego Garcia Island on 13 March and worked at that location for 16 days. On
the 29th
Acadia headed for the east coast of Africa. She visited Mombasa
Kenya
from 4 to 11 April; called
at Mogadishu
the capital of Somalia
between the 13th and the 16th; and paused overnight at Al Masirah
an island
off the coast of Oman near the Horn of Africa
on 22 and 23 April. The destroyer tender returned to the base at
Diego Garcia on 29 April and spent the next month there repairing warships on duty in the troubled waters of the
Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
On 2 June 1983
Acadia departed Diego Garcia on her way to Pattaya
Thailand. The ship arrived at Pattaya
on 11 June. For the rest of the deployment
she operated in the Far Eastern waters proper. From Pattaya
she steamed
back to Subic Bay where she provided repair services to ships of the 7th Fleet during the latter part of June.
During July
Acadia called at Hong Kong
Pusan in Korea
and at Sasebo
Japan. On 16 July
the destroyer
tender stood out of Sasebo on her way back to the United States. She took the usual break in the transpacific voyage
at Pearl Harbor between the 27th and the 29th and reentered San Diego harbor on 4 August.
Acadia remained at San Diego for about two months after her return from the Orient. Post-deployment standdown
consumed the first month
but she got back to work providing repair services during the second. Near the middle
of October
the destroyer tender voyaged north to Bremerton
Wash.
where she carried on her duties until 4 November.
Returning south by way of San Francisco
Acadia reached San Diego again on 12 November. She resumed repair
work at San Diego upon her return and remained so occupied through the end of 1983 and well into 1984. In fact
the ship did not get underway again until late in March 1984 when she put to sea for three days in the southern
California operating area. She returned to port on 23 March and resumed repair work until June. During the week
of 11 to 18 June
Acadia made the round-trip to Monterey and back. In July
she participated in a midshipman
summer training cruise and
in August
carried out refresher training in the local operating area. During the remaining
months of 1984
the destroyer tender concentrated on repair work and preparations for her second deployment overseas.
Acadia embarked upon the voyage to the Far East on 5 January 1985. She stopped in Pearl Harbor from the
12th to the 14th and then resumed her journey west. Steaming by way of Guam
the destroyer tender arrived in Subic
Bay on 2 February. She conducted repairs there for about a week and voyaged to Hong Kong for a port visit. The
ship returned to Subic Bay during the latter part of February and stayed there until 8 March. At that time
she
headed for Japan. During March
she called at Sasebo and at the Korean ports of Pusan and Chinhae. On the 28th
the tender returned to Japan at Yokosuka. Acadia spent the remainder of her tour of duty with the 7th Fleet
at Yokosuka carrying out an extremely heavy schedule of repairs on warships assigned to that fleet. On 12 June
she set out upon the voyage home. Acadia stopped at Pearl Harbor as usual and pulled into San Diego on 3
July. After a month of leave and upkeep
the destroyer tender began preparations for her first regular overhaul.
On 16 September
she moved to the yard of South West Marine in San Diego where she underwent repairs until mid-December.
Holiday leave and upkeep occupied the last half of December 1985
but Acadia launched into a full schedule
of repair services in January 1986. Except for occasional brief periods at sea and a port visit to San Francisco
in June
she remained at San Diego until September. Early in the month she put to sea for refresher training and
on the 28th
embarked upon the passage to Alameda. Acadia arrived at the Naval Air Station
Alameda
on
1 October and began a busy six weeks of repair work there. The destroyer tender returned to San Diego in the middle
of November and spent the remainder of 1986 in preparations for overseas movement.
Although originally slated to deploy in January 1987
Acadia provided repair services to ships in the San
Diego area into the spring. On 14 April
the tender sailed for the western Pacific
and after touching at Pearl
Harbor (21-22 April) and Subic Bay (8-18 May)
was en route to Diego Garcia when she was rerouted to the Persian
Gulf.
An Iraqi Mirage F.1 had mistakenly attacked and severely damaged the guided missile frigate Stark (FFG-31)
on 17 May 1987. The crippled ship had limped into Bahrain
where Acadia was dispatched soon thereafter.
Between 1 and 27 June
Acadia provided berthing
messing
and repair services to Stark
"doing
what she (Acadia) was designed to do
providing forward deployed support and battle damage repair ...."
[Note: The above USS ACADIA (AD-42) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS ACADIA (AD-42) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]