USS Jason (AR-8)
_underway_in_1993.jpeg) The Jason in Subic Bay , 1993 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Keel laying | March 9, 1942 |
| Launch | April 3, 1943 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | June 19, 1944 |
| Decommissioning | June 24, 1995 |
| Whereabouts | Wrecked in Brownsville, Texas in 2007 . |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
17,000 tons |
| length |
160 meters |
| width |
23 meters |
| Draft |
7.9 meters |
| crew |
1,297 |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 2 steam turbines; 8,203 kW |
| speed |
19.2 knots |
| Armament |
4 artillery 127 mm (removed in 1979), 4 20 mm Oerlikon cannons . |
The USS Jason (AR-8) (to 1957 under the ID ARH-1 ) was a workshop ship of Vulcan class that has been put into service 1944th During her more than fifty years of service, the Jason served in World War II , Korean War , Vietnam War, and the Second Gulf War before joining the reserve fleet in 1995. In 2007, the more than sixty-year-old ship was dismantled in Texas .
history
The Jason was laid on March 9, 1942 under the registration ARH-1 in the Todd Pacific Shipyards in Los Angeles and launched on April 3, 1943 from the stack. She belonged to the Vulcan class, a series of auxiliary ships designed for repair and maintenance work . On June 19, 1944, the Jason was put into service under the command of AOR Bergesen.
On July 6, 1944, the ship in the naval base in hit Pearl Harbor one, from where it for maintenance operations on the Solomon Islands and the atoll of Ulithi departed. On Ulithi, the Jason would spend much of the time repairing damaged US Navy ships before moving to Leyte in May 1945 as part of the United States Pacific Fleet .
After the capitulation of Japan , the ship drove as part of a convoy of the United States Seventh Fleet to Incheon and completed missions to Japan and China from there until February 1946 . After a brief overhaul in March 1946, the Jason moved between California and Japan as a location for the next four years .
Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, the ship left its base in Oakland for Sasebo , from where American troops operated. With the exception of a brief overhaul in the USA, the Jason remained stationed in Sasebo throughout the Korean War. On November 6, 1953, the ship entered the port of San Diego after completion of the mission .
In the following years the Jason was involved in several peace operations in Asia. After serving on the west coast of the United States in 1962, the ship participated as part of the Seventh Fleet in missions during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1964. In the years after 1965, the Jason remained stationed on the west coast and took part in several missions in Asia. On February 10, 1986, she collided one hundred nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor with the supply tanker USS Willamette (AO-180) . There was one fatality and eight injured on board the Jason , both ships sustained severe damage.
After Operation Desert Shield began in August 1990, the ship was ordered to the Persian Gulf , where it arrived in early December 1990. There the Jason took part in Operation Desert Storm. The ship's main mission was the emergency repair of the mine-damaged USS Tripoli (LPH-10) and the USS Princeton (CG-59) .
After 51 years of active service, the Jason was retired on June 24, 1995 and removed from the Naval Vessel Register on the same day . She then went to the reserve fleet at Suisun Bay . In December 2006 it was decided to dismantle the ship, which is now over 60 years old. The Jason arrived at Marine Metal's demolition yard in Brownsville, Texas on January 8, 2007. Work on the ship was completed by January 2008.
Web links
- Entry on Jason on navsource.org (English)
- Entry to Jason on navysite.de (English)