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Vintage U.S.S. Prairie AD-15 Color Photo Postcard
Dixie Class Destroyer Tender
She was launched 9 December 1939 and commissioned 5 August 1940
A floating workshop for American
and other Allied destroyers, Prairie was “mother ship†to a squadron of
destroyers at Argentia, the Atlantic terminus of the transatlantic
convoy route
From the Fall of 1943 until
February 1944, Prairie remained in Pearl Harbor. She departed Pearl
Harbor 7 February to move with advancing forces in operations against
the Marshall Islands. Lying in sheltered waters, Prairie tended
destroyers throughout the remainder of the war
The Korean War demanded more
hurried operations from Prairie, and she sailed to provide tending
services for U.N. forces from 2 February to 3 August 1951 and again from
6 April to 10 September 1952, and from late August 1953 to 11 April
1954
After this period of increased
activity, Prairie continued to provide repair, supply, and medical
services to ships of the 7th Fleet
In March 1956, the tender returned to San Diego after completing an around-the-world cruise, a rarity for a destroyer tender
The Prairie was decommissioned on 26 March 1993 and was later towed to Singapore and sold for scrap
Unused vintage color photo postcard
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