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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Recovery (ARS-43)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - India - Delta NIID

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (6)
Bottom Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (2-Lebanon) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Grenada)

USS Recovery (ARS-43) was transferred to Taiwan, renamed ROCS Da-Juen (ARS-556)

Bolster Class Rescue and Salvage Ship:

Laid down, 6 January 1945, at Basalt Rock Co., Napa, CA

Launched, 4 August 1945

Commissioned USS Recovery (ARS-43), 15 May 1946, LT. J. T. Moritz in command

Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1994

Transferred to Taiwan, 30 September 1998, under the Security Assistance Program

Commissioned, ROCS Da-Juen (ARS-556), 1 March 1999

Current Disposition, active in commission in the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy

Specifications:
Displacement 1,497t.(lt) 2,048 t.(fl)
Length 213' 6"
Beam 39'
Draft 14' 8"
Speed 15 kts.
Complement 120
Armament two 40mm guns
Propulsion diesel-electric, twin screws, 2,780hp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Recovery (ARS-43)
	93k	*USS Recovery* (ARS-43)** approaching Regal (AF-58) to take on stores during "Operation Steelpike I", October 1964.	Photo by Jim McCoy
	31k	*USS Recovery* (ARS-43)** underway in the Anacostia River at Washington, D.C., date unknown.	NAFTS National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
	76k	*USS Recovery* (ARS-43) moored pierside at Barcelona, Spain, 12 July 1980. Ships in the background are USS Dahlgren (DDG 43) and USS Stump (DD 978)**.	Photo by Fabio Peña
	91k	View of *USS Recovery* (ARS-43)**'s forward superstructure. Note. SATCOM antennas. Barcelona, Spain, 30 August 1981.	Photo by Fabio Peña
	82k	*USS Recovery* (ARS-43)** at Barcelona, Spain, 30 August 1981.	Photo by Fabio Peña
	79k	*USS Recovery* (ARS-43)** at Venice, Italy, date unknown.	Photo by Manolo Budiño
	64k	*USS Recovery* (ARS-43)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Tom Langford
	277k	*USS Recovery* (ARS-43) moored at the Washington Navy Yard during a Navy festival open house. Behind the Recovery is the destroyer USS Barry (DD-933)*, a permanent memorial ship. DVIC photo # DN-ST-85-11641 June 1 1985*, a US Navy photo by Don S. Montgomery, now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center. US Navy photo	Robert M. Cieri
	97k	*USS Paiute* (ATF-159), USS Papago (ATF-160) and USS Recovery (ARS-43) in storage near Portsmouth, VA., 18 October 1994. In the back of the basin are two patrol missile hydrofoil patrol boats of the Pegasus class, three ocean minesweepers, USS Fortify (MSO-446)** and two others. DVIC Photo DNSC9501404	Don S. Montgomery, Defense Visual Information Center
ROCS Da-Juen (ARS-556)
	130k	Ex-Recovery (ARS-43) in Republic of China service as *ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** moored pierside at Keelung, Taiwan in 2006.	Perry Huang
	148k	*ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** moored pierside at Keelung, Taiwan in 2006.	Perry Huang
	102k	*ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** moored pierside at Keelung, Taiwan in 2006.	Perry Huang
	78k	*ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** moored pierside at Keelung, Taiwan in 2006.	Perry Huang
	79k	*ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** moored pierside at Keelung, Taiwan in 2006.	Perry Huang
	70k	*ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** moored pierside at Keelung, Taiwan in 2006.	Perry Huang
	90k	*ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** name board, 2006.	Perry Huang
	116k	*ROCS Da-Juen* (ARS-556)** moored port side to another ship at Keelung, Taiwan in 2006.	Perry Huang