TACKLE IX 217

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Tackle Class Rescue and Salvage Ship Built 1912 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA as a lumber-carrying steamer for the C. A. Smith Lumber Company ADELINE SMITH (Commercial Service) Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1914 lists the owner as "Inter-Ocean Transportation Co." Official Number: 210768 STANLEY DOLLAR (Commercial Service) Sold in 1919 to Robert Dollar Co. (Dollar Steamship Line) and renamed W. R. CHAMBERLIN, JR. (Commercial Service) Sold in 1923 to W. R. Chamberlin & Co and renamed Chartered 3 January 1942 by the U.S. War Shipping Administration (WSA) and handed over to the U.S. Army W. R. CHAMBERLIN, JR. (U.S. Army) Converted to a salvage vessel in San Diego and operated in the North Africa area (Oran, Algeria) Outright purchased by the WSA from W. R. Chamberlin & Co. for the Navy on 21 May 1943 Renamed to TACKLE on June 8 1943 USS TACKLE ARS-37 Commissioned August 5 1943 USS TACKLE ARST-4 Redesignated Salvage Craft Tender (ARST) February 1 1945 USS TACKLE IX-217 Redesignated Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX) March 2 1945 (effective date March 20 1945) Decommissioned September 13 1945 Struck from Naval Register October 11 1945 Transferred back to WSA (date unknown) TACKLE (Commercial Service) Ownership retained by WSA. Unknown which company operated the ship under contract. Broken up between July 1 and September 30, 1949

 

Conflicting History Data

Shipscribe has the best history for this ship. Most of the history shown above comes from this source.
They do misspell "Chamberlin" as "Chamberlain" for both the name of the ship and the company that owned it.

NavSource also uses the incorrect "Chamberlain" instead of "Chamberlin" and does not show the ship's early history as
ADELINE SMITH and STANLEY DOLLAR nor the post-WWII history and scrapping.

Wikipedia mostly mirrors NavSource.
Oddly, while they misspell the ship's name as W. R. CHAMBERLAIN, JR., they do get the company name correct (W. R. Chamberlin & Co.).

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (1945)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 2rtz

1945-06-07

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Other Information

TACKLE earned two battle stars for World War II service

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, September 4 1944) - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - An assemblage of ropes and pulleys arranged to gain mechanical advantage for hoisting and pulling

 

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