USS Safeguard (ARS 25)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Salvage vessel
Class	Diver
Pennant	ARS 25
Built by	Basalt Rock Co. (Napa, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	14 Mar 1942
Laid down	5 Jun 1943
Launched	20 Nov 1943
Commissioned	30 Sep 1944
End service
History	Decommissioned on 12 December 1947 Recommissioned on 13 February 1952 Decommissioned at an unknown date Stricken on 6 August 1987 Transferred to Turkey on 18 August 1987 being renamed Isin (A 589) As of 2003 still in service as a salvage tug

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Jesse Franklin Simmons, USN	30 Sep 1944	??? (1)

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