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"USS Krishna (ARL-38) was sold to the Philippines and renamed Narra (AR-38)"

 

What were they thinking?!?!?!?!

 

Some Filipino devotees should get together have it re-renamed, or better yet, the US Navy should make a new and better ship and give her the same name

 

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/1938.htm

 

USS KRISHNA (ARL-38) was built by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works

of Seneca, Illinois and launched on 25 May 1945. She was commissioned

as LST-1149 on 3 December 1945 and was soon converted to an ARL

without having seen service as an LST. The deckhouse was extended

forward for additional workshops, machinery spaces and storerooms.

A sixty ton derrick and ten and twenty five ton booms were added on the

main deck. The tank deck contained the various machinery and shops

necessary to carry out assigned tasks.

 

The ship's name is taken from the Hindu God; Krishna, an epic hero charioteer

and object of devotional worship. He is generally depicted as an adolescent

playing a flute and sporting with milkmaids. The letter designation, ARL, means

Auxiliary Repair, Landing Craft.

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