Category:ROCN Da Hu (ARS-552)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Diver Class Rescue and Salvage Ship
• Built by: Basalt Rock Co. Inc., Napa, CA.
• Laid down (date unknown)
• 1942.12.31 Launched
• Length 65 m
• Beam 11.9 m
• Draft 4.3 m
• Displacement 1,530 t.(lt).1,900 t.(fl)
• Speed 12 kts.

History[edit]

• 1943.12.16 Commissioned USS GRAPPLE (ARS-7), at Vallejo, CA.
• 1946.08.30 Decommissioned at San Diego, CA. Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
• 1951.12.20 Recommissioned at San Diego
• Decommissioned, date unknown
• 1977.12.01 Struck from the Naval Register and sold to Taiwan under the Security Assistance Program Renamed 552 DA HU