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ARS-37 / ARST-4 / IX-217 Tackle

Tackle Class Rescue and Salvage Ship : Built in 1912 as SS W.R. Chamberlain, Jr. at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA.; Acquired by the Navy in 1943; Renamed Tackle (ARS-37), 8 June 1943; Commissioned USS Tackle (ARS-37), 5 August 1943, at Palermo, Sicily; Redesignated a Salvage Craft Tender (ARST-4), 1 February 1945; Redesignated Miscellaneous Unclassified, (IX-217), 13 February 1945; Decommissioned, 13 September 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 11 October 1945, fate unknown. Tackle received two battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 6,500 t.; Length 310' 2"; Beam 44' 6": Draft 22' 6"; Speed 10kts; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm guns; Propulsion, diesel-electric, twin screws, 2,780hp.

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