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In early 1994, the USS Pyro (AE-24) was decommissioned, struck from the Naval register in April 1997 and later, was moved to the Suisun Bay, CA, Nest A. In February 2012, Pyro departed San Francisco Bay under tow for scrapping at EMR's Southern Recycling in New Orleans, LA. Her recycling was complete by the end of 2012.
USS Pyro (AE-1), the lead ship of the Pyro-class ammunition ships was commissioned 10 August 1920 and decommissioned 10 September 1924. She was later recommissioned 1 July 1939, decommissioned 12 June 1946, and scrapped circa 1950 in California. USS Pyro (AE-24), a Nitro-class ammunition ship was commissioned 24 July 1959, decommissioned 31 May ...
USS Haleakala (AE-25) in April 1968. The Nitro-class ammunition ships are a class of three auxiliary vessels of the United States Navy.Launched in 1958-1959, they were among the first specialized underway replenishment ships built after the Second World War, to carry munitions.
The first USS Pyro (AE–1) was an ammunition ship of the United States Navy, commissioned from 1920 to 1924 and from 1939 to 1946. Primarily operating in the Pacific Ocean , the Pyro was present during the Attack on Pearl Harbor .
USS ARD-1 was the third steel floating drydock built for the US Navy. The first two were the YFD-2 built in 1901 and the USS Dewey built in 1905. While these two floating drydocks worked very well, they proved to be not very mobile. Both proved to be difficult to tow, as both lacked bows to cut though waves. A new design was needed, or as it ...
USS Shasta (AE-33) was a Kilauea-class replenishment ammunition ship of the United States Navy. She was named after Mount Shasta , a volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California. Shasta ' s mission was to support forward deployed aircraft carrier battle groups , which she accomplished through underway replenishment (known as "unrep") and ...
Marco Polo was a cargo ship built under a US Maritime Commission contract (as MC hull 1356), by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, North Carolina.. The ship was renamed Mount Hood on 10 November 1943; launched on 28 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. A. J. Reynolds; acquired by the Navy on loan-charter basis on 28 January 1944; converted by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co ...
In March 2009, USS released their first full-length album, Questamation, through their independent label, Smashing World Records. [6] For the recording, the duo teamed up with Matthew Von Wagner ( Crystal Castles , Alpha Galates ) for production and engineering, while Chris Davies and Charles Topping 'aided musically'. [ 6 ]