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USS KLONDIKE AR-22 I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving... We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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••| K:r?b ,:«L ; f » €:. , USS KLONDIKE {AR-22) is named for the famous gold mining district in Northwestern Canada through which the Klondike River flows. Her keel was laid December 6, 1943 at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation, San Pedro, California. She was launched on August 12, 1944 and her commissioning as a Destroyer Tender occurred on July 30, 1945. The ship has an overall lengtli of 492 feet, a beam bf 69 feet 7 1 2 inches and she displaces approxima tely 13,000 tons. Her j naximum speed is 18 knots. After seeing service in Pearl Harbor and San Diego, KLONDIKE was decommissioned and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet in June of 1946. KLONDIKE remained in mothballs for the next 13 years until the Com- mander, Service Force, U.SiiJPacificFleet ordered her reactivation as a replacement for the USS HOOPErIsLAND (AGR-17). HOOPER ISLAND ' S crew simultaneously deactivated HOQS ' ER ISLAND and reactivated KLONDIKE, and on July 15, 1959, the officers and men of HOOPER ISLAND accomplished a unique feat of decommissioning HOOPER ISLAND in San Diego during the morning hours and recommissioning KLONDIKE that same afternoon in Long Beach. On September 29, 1959, KLONDIKE began aceeptii customer repair work as the Flagship for Commander Service Groip ONE, and on Feb- ruary 20, 1960, the ship was redesignated from a Destroyer Tender (AD) to a repair ship (AR). Since her redesignation as a repair ship, KLONDIKE has been homeported in San Diego, but has also furnished repair services in Lor Beach and San Francisco as well as making deployments with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific in 1961, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969.
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