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USS Tackle (IX-217)
ex
 USS Tackle (ARST-4) (1945)
 USS Tackle (ARS-37) (1943 - 1945)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Kilo - Golf - Zulu
 NKGZ
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 4 September 1944)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
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 Dollar LIne in 1919, renamed SS Stanley Dollar
  • Acquired by the US Navy in 1943
  • Renamed Tackle (ARS-37), 8 June 1943
  • Commissioned USS Tackle (ARS-37), 5 August 1943, at Palermo, Sicily
  • During World War II USS Tackle was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Sicilian occupation, 9 to 21 September 1943 Invasion of Southern France, 15 August to 25 September 1944

  • Redesignated 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
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • USS Tackle earned two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,500 t.
    Length 310' 2"
    Beam 44' 6"
    Draft 22' 6"
    Speed 10 kts.
    Complement 65
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 cal dual purpose gun mount
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    Diesel-electric engines
    twin propellers, 2,780shp
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    Merchant Service
    Tackle 62k SS Stanley Dollar moored pierside, date and location unknown. As a civilian and then a Navy salvage ship she retained her two lumber-handling masts with their eight long booms. She took a mine but survived during Operation Sledgehammer off Marseilles.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command (SH), Photo No. None, courtesy Shipscribe.com    		 Mike Green
    Tackle
    09373702    		 251k SS Stanley Dollar north bound in Gatun Lake, Panama Canal, 17 August 1921.
    US National Identifier 100996702, Local Identifier 80-G-1061    		 Tommy Trampp
    Tackle
    09373703    		 49k SS Stanley Dollar moored pierside, date and location unknown. Tommy Trampp
    Tackle
    09373704    		 61k Painting of SS Stanley Dollar underway, artist unknown. Tommy Trampp
    USS Tackle (ARS-37 / ARST-4 / IX-217)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Gillespie, John Michael5 August 1943 - 1 January 1944
    02LT. Van Sand, Delar Vincent1 January 1944 - 13 September 1945
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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    Last Updated 15 October 2021