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| USN Safeguard Class Rescue and Salvage Ship 3,282 Tons 255' x 50' x 15' 6" 2 x 25mm chain guns 2 x 50 cal machine guns Crew: 6 officers, 94 enlisted  Dave Flinn 2016 |
Ship History Built by Peterson Builders at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconson. Laid down November 8, 1982 as the lead ship of the Safeguard Class Rescue and Salvage Ship. Launched November 12, 1983. Comissioned on August 17, 1985 in the U.S. Navy (USN) as USS Safeguard ARS-50. In September 1989 divers from Safeguard surveyed Japanese submarine RO-65 in Kiska Harbor. Decommissioned on September 26, 2007 and that same day transfered to Military Sealift Command and recomissioned as USNS Safeguard (T-ARS-50) was IMO: 8434362. During late October 2015, as part of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), Safeguard arrived in Indonesia to conduct a nine day training exercise using U.S. Navy divers from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11, Mobile Diving Salvage (MDS) 11-7 with Indonesian Navy Divers to survey the shipwrecks of USS Houston CA-30 and HMAS Perth (D29) to assess damage from illegal scrapping and potential danger from unexploded ordnance. During January 2016, Safeguard departed on an eighty-day mission departing from Subic Bay with with U.S. Navy divers from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11, Mobile Diving Salvage Unit 1 (MDSU-1) with underwater archaeologist Richard Wills from DPAA on a mission to Papua New Guinea to support the Missing In Action (MIA) mission. During late January 2016, the vessel anchored off Kawa Island to investigate B-24D "Crosair" 41-23752. Afterwards, Safeguard traveled to Rabaul to conduct an underwater survey of Simpson Harbor and Blanche Bay directed by a contractor to search for MIA aircraft from World War II. Also, the vessel continued to dive and recover remains from the wreckage from the underwater crash site of TBF Avenger 24264. References MarineTraffic - USNS Safeguard IMO: 8434362 Navy Vessel Register - USNS Safeguard (T-ARS 50) US Navy Military Sealift Command - Rescue and Salvage Ships US Navy Military Sealift Command - USNS Safeguard (via WaybackMachine March 7, 2009) NavSource - USNS Safeguard T-ARS-50 (photos) Facebook - Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One US Embassy Port Moresby "Repatriation Ceremony Honors WWII American Servicemen" May 13, 2016 Dive Training May/June 2016 "WWII Wreck sites in South Pacific" page 13 Contribute
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