USS ARD-17
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USS ARD-17 was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". built for the U.S. Navy during World War II as an Auxiliary floating drydock. Like most of the ships of her class, she was not named but known only by her designation.
History
ARD-17 was built at Pacific Bridge Company in Alameda, California and delivered to the Navy in early 1944.[1]
In July and August 1944, ARD-17 served a support role in the liberation of Guam.[2]
In late September 1944, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". towed ARD-17 from Guam to Palau.[3] On 30 November 1944 ARD-17 was damaged by a near miss from a Japanese bomber while anchored at Naval Base Kossol Roads, Palau.[4]
In February 1945, ARD-17 and sister ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". were at Leyte Gulf servicing ships returning from Iwo Jima and preparing for Okinawa.[5]
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.[6]
On 1 December 1977, ARD-17 was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register,[7] and sold the same day to Ecuador under the Security Assistance Program.[6] Renamed Amazonas (DF-81), her current fate is unknown.[1]
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- ARD-12-class floating drydocks
- Ships built in Alameda, California
- 1944 ships
- World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
- Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
- Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Ecuadorian Navy
- Auxiliary ships of the Ecuadorian Navy
- Floating drydocks of the United States Navy