USS
Indra was laid down in Chicago in February 1945 and was
put in service for US Navy in October the same year. She
was used as a support vessel, like at the action in
Tsingtao in 1947, and in 1968 where she was sent to
support the Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam. In 1970 she
was transferred to Reserve Fleet and in 1992 she was
transferred to State of North Carolina and scuttled as
part of Artifical Reef program AR 330. The wreck rest on
her keel on a depth of 10 to 25 meter south of Newport.
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USS
Indra
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ARL 37, LST 1147 |
328,0 x 50,0 x 14,0 f |
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2125 grt |
Chicago ( US ) 1945 |
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34.560556
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Picture: USS ARL 37
Wikipedia, Public domain

"Commissioned 2 October
1945, Lt. Comdr. R. J. Siegelman in command. After
shakedown Indra sailed to Green Cove Springs, Fla.,
where she remained from 30 November 1945 until 8 May
1946. She then steamed through the Panama Canal to San
Diego, arriving 4 June. The ship remained in California
until departing 7 January 1947 for the Far East. Indra
arrived Tsingtao 19 February to support American Marines
there attempting to stabilize the volatile Chinese
situation and protect American lives and property. She
performed repair and general services there and at
Shanghai until 30 August, when she sailed for San Diego.
Upon her arrival 25 September 1947, Indra decommissioned
6 October and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San
Diego group. After two decades in the Pacific Reserve
Fleet, Indra was recommissioned in December 1967. She
arrived in the Republic of Vietnam in May 1968 to serve
as a tender and floating base for the Mobile Riverine
Force. Following her return to the United States, she
decommissioned in May 1970 and rejoined the Reserve
Fleet. Stricken from the Naval register in 1989"
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