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Bolster -class rescue and salvage ship
USS Recovery is a bolster -class rescue and salvage ship. It was built by Basalt Rock Company.
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USS Recovery
Basalt Rock Company
6 January 1945
4 August 1945
Mrs. Harry Burris
15 May 1946
20 September 1994
30 September 1994
Hull number : ARS-43
Transferred to Taiwan , 30 September 1998
30 September 1998
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Bolster -class rescue and salvage ship
1,995 long tons (2,027 t) full
213 ft 6 in (65.07 m)
44 ft (13 m)
15 ft (4.6 m)
11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
84 officers and enlisted
4 × 40 mm guns 6 × 20 mm guns
USS Recovery (ARS-43) was a Bolster -class rescue and salvage ship of the United States Navy , which remained in commission for over 48 years. Laid down on 6 January 1945 by the Basalt Rock Company in Napa, California , the ship was launched on 4 August 1945, and commissioned on 15 May 1946. In American service, the vessel supported NASA 's Project Mercury spaceflights and recovery and the search for the lost submarine USS Thresher . The ship was removed from American service, transferred to Taiwan, and commissioned on 1 March 1999 in the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Da Juen (ARS-556) . The vessel was later renamed Ta De .
Recovery was decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 September 1994. She was transferred to Taiwan on 30 September 1998, under the Security Assistance Program, and commissioned on 1 March 1999 in the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Da Juen (ARS-556), where she remains in commission under the name Ta De (ARS-556).
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USS Recovery equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
TaiwanNavy exact named equipment holdings: Da Juen (ex-US Bolster). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: LOGISTICS AND SUPPORT / ARS. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.