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The repair ship Piedmont took charge of ship repair and maintenance, the hospital became a Naval Dispensary, later Naval Hospital Yokosuka Japan, and the Supply Department was organized to provide support to the fleet and shore-based activities. The Public Works Department was established. Yokosuka Submarine Base was founded in September 1945. [3]
The facilities were seized by Allied forces at the end of World War II, and on 15 October 1945 the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal was officially abolished. The facilities were used after World War II by the U.S. Navy as the Yokosuka Ship Repair Facility, and its former property is now under the control of the U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka.
USS Ajax (AR-6), in service 1943 to 1986, was the second Vulcan-class repair ship and the fourth ship in the United States Navy to bear the name. Laid down in 1941, launched in 1942 and commissioned in 1943, she was decommissioned in 1986 and finally sold for scrap.
After several days at sea, the USS Piedmont pulled into Sasebo. Most of the cruise was spent in Subic doing ship repair on other Westpac ships. The USS Piedmont was relieved by the Prairie in Yokosuka, Japan and upon leaving was ordered to replenish and refuel destroyers on station off the coast of Russia.
The air arsenal's roots go back to 1869 when the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) established a naval arsenal at Yokosuka, about 13 miles south of Yokohama on Tokyo Bay.The arsenal provided ship building, repair and replenishment to the Japanese Navy.
Yokosuka Dockyards - now US Navy Yokosuka Ship Repair Facility and United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka; Ishikawajima Naval Yard (Sumida River) - now IHI Corporation shipyard; Kure Naval Dockyards - now Universal Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard owned by JFE Holdings and Hitachi Zosen Corporation; Sasebo Naval Dockyards; Maizuru Naval Dockyards
The Yokosuka Naval Base (Japanese: 横須賀基地, Hepburn: Yokosuka Kichi), also simply known as the JMSDF Yokosuka Naval Base, is a group of ports and land facilities of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), which are scattered in multiple districts of Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and where the Yokosuka District Force [], etc. are located.
The tank landing ship arrived in Yokosuka on 22 April and began 37 days of upkeep, inspections, and repairs. On 29 May she departed Yokosuka on what was supposed to be a round-trip voyage to Subic Bay and back to her home port. However, two days out, she received a change in orders sending her back to Vietnam at the completion of her mission to ...