&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USS_Jason_(AR-8)_underway_in_1993.jpeg) USS Jason (AR-8) in 1993
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| History | |
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| Name | USS Jason |
| Namesake | Jason |
| Builder | Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California |
| Laid down | 9 March 1942 |
| Launched | 3 April 1943 |
| Commissioned | 19 June 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 24 June 1995 |
| Reclassified | AR-8, 9 September 1957 |
| Stricken | 24 June 1995 |
| Motto | Ready Willing Able |
| Nickname(s) | Jolly J |
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| Fate | Scrapped, 2007 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Vulcan class repair ship |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 530 ft (160 m) |
| Beam | 77 ft (23 m) |
| Draft | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × Babcock Wilcox Express A Type 400psi Boilers, 2 × steam turbines, 2 propeller shafts, 11,000 shp (8,203 kW) |
| Speed | 19.2 knots (35.6 km/h; 22.1 mph) |
| Complement | 1,297 |
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USS Jason (AR-8) was the fourth of the Vulcan class repair ship of the United States Navy in service from 1944 to 1995, serving in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. At the time of her decommissioning, Jason was (with the exception of USS Constitution) the oldest ship in continual commission in the United States Navy, and the final ship in continual commission from World War II onward.