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Thomas Courtien

Posted 2020-02-15 11:05 AM (#96852)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1890

Location: Patterson, New York

Subject: Internal Combustion Engine Repair ship.

I have been doing family research as a hobby for some years.

I recently came across a military record of one of my mother's first cousins.

He served on a type of ship I never heard of before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Luzon_(ARG-2)

Internal Combustion Engine Repair ship.

Edited by Thomas Courtien 2020-02-15 3:03 PM

Ric

Posted 2020-02-15 11:24 AM (#96853 - in reply to #96852)

Plankowner

Posts: 9165

Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: USS Luzon

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/29/2902.htm

Holland Club

Posted 2020-02-15 11:48 AM (#96854 - in reply to #96852)

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Posts: 2490

Location: East Coast of Wisconsin

Subject: RE: ---

Yep. Auxiliary Repair, the G for gasoline.
There were lots of AR designation. Including just plain old AR and ARB for battle damage, ARL for light, etc.
( I spent 4 years on the same skimmer and learned a lot of this stuff.

Not enough? Go here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hull_classifications

Edited by Holland Club 2020-02-15 11:51 AM

JrKrup, Skimmer

Posted 2020-02-15 10:44 PM (#96867 - in reply to #96854)

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Posts: 1323

Location: Oxnard, CA

Subject: RE: ---

There was an ARD - floating drydock - in Guam back in 1965/1967 era. Lifted my minesweep out of the water on each WESTPAC deployment. It was a non-self-propelled drydock but had a navy crew and was complete with berthing spaces, a galley and mess decks, diesel engines for electrical power and to power the flooding pumps.

rover177

Posted 2020-02-16 12:14 PM (#96875 - in reply to #96852)

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Posts: 1576

Location: Wollongong, NSW

Subject: RE: Internal Combustion Engine Repair ship.

For years, we had HMAS Stalwart, a dedicated repair ship. Was supposed to be used for deployments away but very frequently had ships alongside at the main Sydney base - I presume for normal 'internal maintenance' (SMP) routines.

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