![]() ![]() She was redesignated ARC-4 and renamed Thor on 14 November 1955. On 30 June, she entered the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s yard at Baltimore, Maryland, for conversion to a cable repair ship. USS Thor Īfter almost nine years of inactivity - berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet at James River, Virginia - Vanadis was reacquired by the Navy on 14 April 1955 and reinstated on the Navy List as AKA-49. ![]() Her name was struck from the Navy List on 5 June 1946 and, on 2 July, she was transferred to the Maritime Commission. Vanadis was placed out of commission on 27 March 1946. On 6 February, she reported to the Commandant, 1st Naval District, for inactivation. After visiting Mobile, Alabama Gulfport, Mississippi and Jacksonville, Florida, she arrived at Boston. ![]() In mid-December, the attack cargo ship headed for the Gulf of Mexico. įollowing shakedown out of Hampton Roads, Vanadis arrived at Newport, Rhode Island, on 4 August and began shuttling back and forth between that port and Hampton Roads. The Navy acquired the ship on 9 July 1945 with commissioning the same day with Lt. Vanadis is an alternative poetic name for Freia, the Germanic goddess of love and beauty. The ship was named after 76 Freia, a minor planet. and launched on 8 June 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Vanadis (AKA-49) was laid down on 18 April 1945 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1910) at Providence, Rhode Island, by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc. Myer and Neptune which were modernized in the 1980s. The others were Aeolus, the other transport conversion, and the two Army designed cable ships, the only ships in the Navy designed and built as cable ships, Albert J. Thor was one of four Navy cable ships supporting military cable projects from the 1950s until 1984 with construction of Zeus. After removal of cable machinery the ship was eventually sold for scrap on 22 September 1977. Thor, named after the Germanic god of thunder, was commissioned on 3 January 1956 and served in that capacity until 2 July 1973 when transferred to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) for brief operation as USNS Thor (T-ARC-4) until April 1974 when the ship was returned to the Maritime Administration for disposal. Originally the Artemis-class attack cargo ship Vanadis (AKA-49) which was briefly in commission from 9 July 1945 to 27 March 1946, it was converted in 1955 after nine years in the reserve fleet. USS Thor was a cable repair ship that supported Project Caesar, the unclassified name for installation of the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS). Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 2 July 1946 Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island ![]()
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