Allied Warships

USS Escape (ARS 6)

Salvage vessel of the Diver class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeSalvage vessel
ClassDiver 
PennantARS 6 
Built byBasalt Rock Co. (Napa, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered20 Sep 1941 
Laid down24 Aug 1942 
Launched22 Nov 1942 
Commissioned20 Nov 1943 
End service29 Jun 1995 
History

Decommissioned on 20 July 1946
Recommissioned on 12 July 1951
Decommissioned on 1 September 1978, transferred to the United States Coast Guard and Commissioned as USCGC Escape (WMEC-6) on the same day
Decommissioned, returned to the USN and stricken on 29 June 1995

 

Commands listed for USS Escape (ARS 6)

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1Lt. W. T. Williams, USN20 Nov 1943??? (1)

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Sources

  1. http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ars6.htm

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