USS Prometheus (AR 3)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Repair ship
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	AR 3
Built by	Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	18 Oct 1907
Launched	8 Dec 1908
Commissioned	15 Jan 1910
End service	1 Jul 1946
History	Displacement: 8940 BRT Length: 466 feet Complement: 737 Armament: 2 5" guns (2x1), 4 3" AA guns (4x1), 4 40mm AA (2x2) Speed: 16 kts Commissioned as USS Ontario (Fleet Collier No. 2) on 15 January 1910 Decommissioned on 7 April 1913 and converted to a repair ship Recommissioned as repair ship No. 2) on 23 December 1914 Designated AR-3 on 17 July 1920,/br> Decommissioned on 4 October 1924 Recommissioned on 15 May 1942 Decommissioned on 1 July 1946 Stricken on 31 July 1946 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 29 August 1950

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Robert Pearce Briscoe, USN	15 May 1942	12 Nov 1942
2	T/Cdr. Louis Thomason Young, USN	12 Nov 1942	31 May 1943
3	Cdr. Clyde Charlie Laws, USN	31 May 1943	16 Nov 1944
4	Cdr. Harold Edward Barden, USNR	16 Nov 1944	1 Jul 1946

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