ARD 20
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History | |
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United States | |
Name |
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Namesake | The White Sands region of New Mexico |
Builder | Pacific Bridge Company, Alameda, California |
Laid down | 20 December 1943 |
Launched | early 1944 |
In service | 31 March 1944 |
Out of service | 7 October 1947 |
In service | 14 September 1966 |
Out of service | late summer 1974 |
Renamed |
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Reclassified |
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Stricken | September 1974 |
Fate | Struck from US Navy Register 1974 |
Status | In Use as Floating Drydock, Seattle, WA |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | ARD-12-class auxiliary repair dock |
Displacement | 5,200 long tons (5,283 t) |
Length | 291 ft 8 in (88.90 m) |
Beam | 81 ft (25 m) |
Draft |
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Propulsion | None |
Complement | 112 |
USS White Sands (ARD-20), ex-USS ARD-20, ex-USS ARD(BS)-20, later AGDS-1, was a United States Navy auxiliary repair dock in service from 1944 to 1947 and from 1966 to 1974 and an Auxiliary floating drydock.