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USS Deliver (ARS-23)
A photo of the 1944 Basalt Rock Company of Napa, California built Diver class ARS-5 type Rescue and salvage Ship USS Deliver (ARS-23) of the United States Navy, seen at an unknown location during her service in the Korean War in a shot taken sometime between 1951 and 1953.
Built to serve in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II, her checkered career included later service in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, all of which she escaped unscathed. She also found usage in Operation Crossroads in 1946 and served on Arctic supply runs in the 1950s. Decommissioned and struck from the naval register in 1979, she was sold under the Security Assistance Program to the Republic of Korea Navy and renamed ROKS Gumi (ARS-26), being delivered to her new owners in 1980. She was replaced by the then new ROKS Cheonghaejin (ASR-21) and decommissioned on January 1st, 1998, being stricken off the Republic of Korea naval register that same year. She has since presumably been scrapped, though no information seems to be out on the web.
A list of all Diver class rescue and salvage ships made by me can be found in the link. The ships are organized roughly by commission date: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mgRNNBdsDqg_sremrYyj4kV6J...
The class consisted of two separate vessel types which I have made lists for, the ARS-5 type, to which the USS Deliver (ARS-23) belonged to:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pe3plsFDmCFIjuaNg0SgsOyAu...
And the BARS-5 type:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EFx-Dn6z_oCaM1HM_DJlBJKb3...
Photo from the late Neil Femley (who served aboard the ship during the Korean and Vietnam Wars), and since acquired from Robert Worby. Uploaded with his permission.
USS Deliver (ARS-23)
A photo of the 1944 Basalt Rock Company of Napa, California built Diver class ARS-5 type Rescue and salvage Ship USS Deliver (ARS-23) of the United States Navy, seen at an unknown location during her service in the Korean War in a shot taken sometime between 1951 and 1953.
Built to serve in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II, her checkered career included later service in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, all of which she escaped unscathed. She also found usage in Operation Crossroads in 1946 and served on Arctic supply runs in the 1950s. Decommissioned and struck from the naval register in 1979, she was sold under the Security Assistance Program to the Republic of Korea Navy and renamed ROKS Gumi (ARS-26), being delivered to her new owners in 1980. She was replaced by the then new ROKS Cheonghaejin (ASR-21) and decommissioned on January 1st, 1998, being stricken off the Republic of Korea naval register that same year. She has since presumably been scrapped, though no information seems to be out on the web.
A list of all Diver class rescue and salvage ships made by me can be found in the link. The ships are organized roughly by commission date: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mgRNNBdsDqg_sremrYyj4kV6J...
The class consisted of two separate vessel types which I have made lists for, the ARS-5 type, to which the USS Deliver (ARS-23) belonged to:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pe3plsFDmCFIjuaNg0SgsOyAu...
And the BARS-5 type:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EFx-Dn6z_oCaM1HM_DJlBJKb3...
Photo from the late Neil Femley (who served aboard the ship during the Korean and Vietnam Wars), and since acquired from Robert Worby. Uploaded with his permission.