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HMS Lincoln Salvor
ex
 BARS-9 (1943 - 1944)

BARS-5 HMS American Salvor Class Rescue and Salvage Ship:
  • Laid down, 27 April 1942, as BARS-9, under a Maritime Commission contract at Bellingham Marine Railway & Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA.
  • Launched, 14 November 1942
  • Assigned to the Royal Navy under terms of the Lend Lease Act, named Lincoln Salvor
  • Completed, 5 November 1943, and transferred to the Royal Navy, commissioned HMS Lincoln Salvor
  • Returned to US Navy custody, 10 December 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Sold for merchant service in November 1946
  • Renamed Agerochos in 1948
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in Greece in 1964
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,123 t.(lt) 1,615 t.(lim)
    Length 183' 2"
    Beam 37'
    Draft 14' 7" (lim)
    Speed 12 kts
    Complement 34
    Largest Boom Capacity 10 t.
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacities
    Diesel 2,300 Bbls
    Gasoline 2,450 Gals
    Propulsion
    Cooper Bessemer Diesel-electric engines
    two Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gears
    Ship's Service Generators
     two Diesel-drive 200Kw 120V D.C.
     one Diesel-drive 60Kw 120V D.C.
    twin propellers, 1,200 shp
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    Lincoln Salvor
    19-N-52768    		 98k BARS-9 under way in Puget Sound during builders trials, 6 October 1943.
    US National Archives, RG-19-LCM. Photo #'s. 19-N-52768, 19-N-52765 and 19-N-52767 US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.    		 Robert Hurst
    Lincoln Salvor
    19-N-52765    		 89k
    Lincoln Salvor
    19-N-52767    		 99k
    Lincoln Salvor
    0937b0904     		50k BARS-9, moored in PUget Sound, circa October-November 1943
    Photo from Western Washington University Library    		 John Spivey
    There is no DANFS history record for BARS-9 / HMS Lincoln Salvor available at NavSource
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