USS Indra
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use dmy dates
| Script error: No such module "InfoboxImage". USS Indra (ARL-37), underway c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1960s Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". |
USS Indra (ARL-37) was one of 39 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Indra (the god of weather and war, and lord of Svargaloka in Hinduism), she was the only US Naval vessel to bear the name, and only one of three ships (along with Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and the Civil War era gunboat Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".) to be named after a Hindu deity.
Construction
Originally laid down as LST-1147 on 12 February 1945; reclassified while building and launched as ARL-37 by Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, of Seneca, Illinois, 21 May 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Regina K. Hlubek; placed in reduced commissionTemplate:Sfn and brought to Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore, for conversion, and commissioned 2 October 1945.Template:Sfn
Service history
After shakedown, Indra sailed to Green Cove Springs, Florida, where she remained from 30 November 1945, until 8 May 1946. She then steamed through the Panama Canal to San Diego, arriving 4 June 1946. The ship remained in California until departing 7 January 1947, for the Far East. Indra arrived at Qingdao, 19 February 1947, to support the United States Marines there attempting to stabilize the volatile Chinese situation and protect American lives and property. She performed repair and general services there and at Shanghai, until 30 August 1947, when she sailed for San Diego. Upon her arrival on 25 September 1947, Indra was decommissioned on 6 October 1947, and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group.Template:Sfn
Indra was recommissioned 16 December 1967. During the Vietnam War, Indra participated in the following campaigns:
- Vietnamese Counteroffensive – Phase IV (2 to 16 April 1968)
- Vietnamese Counteroffensive – Phase V (21 September to 1 November 1968)
Decommissioned in May 1970, she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1984. Transferred to the state of North Carolina in January 1992, she was sunk as an artificial reef off the coast of North Carolina on 4 August 1992.Template:Sfn
Awards
Indra earned two battle stars for service during the Vietnam War.Template:Sfn
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Bibliography
<templatestyles src="Refbegin/styles.css" />
- Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
- REDIRECT Template:Source-attribution
- Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
- REDIRECT Template:Source-attribution
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS_utilities".
Script error: No such module "Military navigation".
Script error: No such module "Navbox".
Template:MARCOM ships Prairie Shipyard, Seneca Illinois
Template:1992 shipwrecks
Template:Recreational dive sites
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with ignored display titles
- Achelous-class repair ships
- Achelous-class repair ships converted from LST-542-class ships
- World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
- Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
- Vietnam War auxiliary ships of the United States
- Shipwrecks of the Carolina coast
- Ships built in Seneca, Illinois
- 1945 ships
- Ships sunk as artificial reefs
- Maritime incidents in 1992