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ARH-1 / AR-8 Jason

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Victor - Uniform
NCVU
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons








Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row - Navy Unit Commendation (2)- Battle "E" Ribbon (6) - Navy Expeditionary Medal (Iran/Indian Ocean)
Third Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Fourth Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Fifth Row - Korean Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf) - Vietnam Service Medal (3)
Sixth Row - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Typhoon Pamela) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation
Seventh Row - Korean Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal - United Nations Service Medal
Eighth Row - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korean War Service Medal (retroactive) - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Vulcan Class Repair Ship:
  • Laid down, 9 March 1942, at Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., San Pedro, CA. as a Heavy-hull Repair Ship
  • Launched, 3 April 1943
  • Commissioned USS Jason (ARH-1), 19 June 1944, CAPT. A. O. R. Bergesen in command
  • Redesignated Repair Ship (AR-8), 9 September 1957
  • During the Vietnam War Jason (AR-8) participated in the following campaigns:
    Vietnam War Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive-Phase V Campaign
    25 July to 16 August 1968    		 Vietnamese Counteroffensive-Phase VII Campaign
    23 March to 13 April 1971
    Vietnam Winter-Summer 1970 Campaign
    27 December 1969 to 21 January 1970    		 .

  • Decommissioned, and Struck from the Naval Register, 24 June 1995
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA
  • Final Disposition, contract awarded, 9 November 2006, to Marine Metal Inc, Brownsville, TX. for scrapping. Removed from the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group, 8 January 2007 for scrapping at Marine Metal Inc, Brownsville, TX.
  • Jason earned three campaign stars for Vietnam War service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,430 t.(lt) 17,000 t.(fl)
    Length 530'
    Beam 73' 4"
    Draft 26' (max)
    Speed 19.2 kts.
    Complement 1,297
    Armament
    four single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts
    eight single 40mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion four boilers,two steam turbines, two propeller shafts, 11,000shp
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    Heavy-hull Repair Ship (ARH-1)
    Jason 109k Jason (ARH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.
    Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    Jason 71k Jason (ARH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.
    Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, March 1951.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Jason 105k Jason (ARH-1) underway, circa 1945, Pacific Ocean.
    Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Jason 107k Jason (ARH-1) with a carrier alongside; possibly at Ulithi between, 26 January to 7 February 1945. Hancock spent those days alongside Jason while undergoing repairs after an accidental explosion on her flight deck on 21 January 1945.
    US Navy photo from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    CV-15 Randolph 155k Jason (ARH-1) at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945 with Randolph (CV-15) alongside. Note the damage to the after flight deck of Randolph resulting from a kamikaze hit on 11 March 1945. Photographed from a Miami (CL-89) floatplane.
    Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-344531, a US Navy photo now in the collection of the US National Archives.    		 Scott Dyben
    Jason 365k Jason (ARH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.
    Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax.
    US Navy photo    		 David Buell
    Jason 190k Jason (ARH-1) underway, date and location unknown.
    Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax.
    US Navy photo    		 David Buell
    Repair Ship (AR-8)
    Jason 83k Jason (AR-8) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Jason 115k Jason (AR-8) off Point Loma departing San Diego, CA., date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Jason 475k Jason (AR-8) underway while entering San Diego Bay, late 1950s.
    US Navy photo.    		 David Buell
    Jason 46k Jason (AR-8) pierside, at Pearl Harbor, HI., date unknown. Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret.
    Jason 143k Jason (AR-8) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Jason 42k Jason (AR-8) moored at Naval Station Subic Bay, Philippines with Coast Guard cutters of Coast Guard Squadron Three alongside, circa 1967. From inboard to outboard:
    Half Moon (WHEC-378);
    Yakutat (WHEC-380);
    Gresham (WHEC-387);
    Barataria (WHEC-381) and
    Bering Strait (WHEC-382)    		 Robert Hurst
    Jason 30k Jason (AR-8) in the channel departing Pearl Harbor, HI., date unknown. Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret.
    Beaufort 66k Jason (AR-8), with Beaufort (ATS-2) alongside, at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, circa 1981 Photo by Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret
    Jason 75k Jason (AR-8) pierside San Diego, CA., date unknown. Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret.
    Jason 79k Jason (AR-8) off Point Loma departing San Diego, CA., date unknown. Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret.
    Jason 59k Jason (AR-8) moored at pier 16 Naval Station Long Beach CA., date unknown. Photo by Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Jason 54k Jason (AR-8) moored pierside at San Diego, CA., date unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Jason 106k Jason (AR-8) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr
    Jason 41k Jason (AR-8) underway, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Jason 80k Jason (AR-8) moored pierside, 1988, place unknown. Nick Napzok ex-EM3 USN
    Jason 40k Jason (AR-8) at San Diego, October 1994 Dale C. Haskin
    Jason 32k Ex-Jason (AR-8) in decommissioned status .
    Jason 52k Ex-Jason (AR-8) under tow in San Francisco Bay, 12 January 2007, by the tug Marine Commander. Jason was enroute to the scrappers yard, ESCO, Brownsville, TX. Photo by CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG (Ret.)
    Jason 54k Ex-Jason (AR-8) under tow in San Francisco Bay, 12 January 2007, while enroute to the scrappers yard, ESCO, Brownsville, TX. Photo by CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG (Ret.)
    Jason 69k Ex-Jason (AR-8) arriving at ESCO, Brownsville, TX., 1 March 2007, for scrapping.
    Photo by Mike Martin, Brownsville, TX.    		 TJ Tropea
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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