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U.S.S. KLONDIKE
(AR-22)REPAIR IS OUR GOAL
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USS KLONDIKE (AR-22) - a Klondike-class destroyer tender
In Commission 1945 to 1970AR-22 Deployments - Major Events
Add a AR-22 Shellback Initiation | Add a AR-22 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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AUG | 1944 | - | Launch Date: 12 AUG 1944 | ||
JUL | 1945 | - | Commissioned: 30 JUL 1945 | ||
FEB | 1960 | - | FEB | 1960 | Reclassified AR-22 |
JAN | 1961 | - | OCT | 1961 | West Pac |
FEB | 1966 | - | OCT | 1966 | West Pac |
FEB | 1966 | - | OCT | 1966 | West Pac |
AUG | 1966 | - | Shellback Initiation - 10 AUG 1966 - Pacific Ocean | ||
AUG | 1966 | - | Shellback Initiation - 10 AUG 1966 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JAN | 1967 | - | JAN | 1968 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUN | 1967 | - | JAN | 1968 | West Pac |
JAN | 1968 | - | AUG | 1970 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1968 | - | JAN | 1970 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1969 | - | JUN | 1969 | West Pac |
JAN | 1969 | - | JAN | 1970 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
APR | 1969 | - | OCT | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
DEC | 1970 | - | Decommissioned: 15 DEC 1970 |
AR-22 General Specifications
Class: Klondike-class destroyer tender
Complement: 826 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 8165 tons
Length: 492 feet
Beam: 69 feet 8 inches
Draft: 27 feet 3 in
Final Disposition: Sold 8 May 1975
USS KLONDIKE (AR-22)
Klondike (AD-22) was launched 12 August 1944 by Todd Shipbuilding Corp., San Pedro, Calif.;
sponsored by
Mrs. Dorothy J. Diirck; and commissioned at San Pedro 30 July 1945, Comdr. M. B. Hatch in command.
After shakedown, Klondike
loaded hundreds of tons of spares and
stores in preparation for the important task of supplying and maintaining the speedy, hardhitting destroyers. Designed as a "mother ship"
for the "greyhounds of the
fleet," she departed San Pedro 19 October for Pearl Harbor, arriving the
25th. Recalled to the West Coast,
she sailed from Pearl 7 November with 500 home-bound veterans embarked and arrived San Diego 15 November. On 21 November she became the flagship
for Commander, San Diego Group, 19th
Fleet; and commenced inactiviation operations on ships scheduled for the
Pacific Reserve Fleet. Placed on an inactive
status (in commission, in reserve) 30
November 1946, Klondike was placed in service in late summer, 1948. She served as flagship until 11 May 1955.
Klondike recommissioned 15 July 1959 at Long Beach, Comdr. F. F. Mullins, Jr.,
in command. Returning to San Diego 4 December, she provided repair facilities as a unit of SerRon 1. On 20
February 1960 she was re-classified as repair ship AR-22 and she repaired vessels
at San Diego, Long Beach, and San Francisco until 15 July 1961. Klondike then
departed San Diego for duty in
the Far East. Assigned to SerRon 3, she arrived Yokosuka, Japan 4 August; and until 23 February 1962 she provided repair facilities at Sasebo and Iwakuni,
Japan, and Subic Bay, P.I., for the
peace-keeping ships of the mighty 7th
Fleet. Returning to the West Coast 11 March, she resumed her duty out of
San Diego.
Departing
San Diego 17 July 1963, Klondike steamed via Pearl Harbor for the Western Pacific. While en
route to Sasebo,
she offered assistance 6 through 9 August to distressed Greek freighter Cryssism during a
raging typhoon.
Reaching Sasebo 11 August, she proceeded to Subic Bay 15 August for repair ship station duty. Klondike operated in the Far East
until 30 November; then she returned to the United States, arriving San Diego 14 December. During the next
year she continued servicing ships
while operating out of San Diego and San Francisco. Klondike continued to
repair the ships of the Pacific Fleet into
mid-1967. Her last Far Eastern deployment began 25 February 1966 when she departed San Diego. She remained in the Orient repairing the ships of the
mighty 7th Fleet until returning to
Pearl Harbor 27 October. The remainder
of the year was devoted to preparing for future action in 1967.
[Note: The above USS KLONDIKE (AR-22) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS KLONDIKE (AR-22), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]