USS Petrel (ASR-14)
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| Name: | USS Petrel |
| Builder: | Savannah Machine Foundry Co., Savannah, Georgia |
| Laid down: | 26 February 1945 |
| Launched: | 26 September 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 1991 |
| Struck: | 9 October 1991 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 2003 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship |
| Displacement: | 1,780 long tons (1,809 t) |
| Length: | 251 ft 4 in (76.61 m) |
| Beam: | 42 ft (13 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement: | 63 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns |
The fifth USS Petrel (ASR-14) was a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship in the United States Navy.
Petrel was laid down on 26 February 1945, was built by Savannah Machine Foundry Co., Savannah, Georgia; launched on 26 September 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Effie Jeffreys (in honour of her son, MMC Romie L. Jeffreys, who died along with all hands on the submarine USS Shark (SS-174) on 11 February 1942), and commissioned at Savannah on 24 September 1946, Lt. Dennis Hima in command.
After fitting out at Charleston, South Carolina and shakedown at Guantanamo and Panama Bays, Petrel returned to Charleston on 18 December 1946. She sailed for New London on 6 January 1947 to join SubRon 2, and operated out of that base for the next three years training and qualifying deep-sea divers and salvage crews, and escorting submarines such as Piper (SS-409) and Cochino (SS-345) in tests.
Departing New London on 23 January 1950, she steamed off Old Point Comfort, Virginia, where the battleship Missouri (BB-63) had run aground. Divers from Petrel surveyed and excavated around the bottom of the battleship, and on 1 February Petrel aided in the “big pull” that drew Missouri into deep water. After this operation, Petrel returned to New London on 6 February, but was reassigned to Key West on 5 May.
Petrel continued training operations, with SubRon 4, at Key West throughout the 1950s, with occasional variations. She towed ex-U-2513 off Dry Tortuga Flats in October 1950 to be sunk in firing exercises by the destroyer Robert A. Owens (DD-827). Exercises in 1952 included re-floating the U–2513. In 1956, Petrel had a key role in freeing Nantahala, aground in Key West Channel.
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