Guest guest Report post Posted March 8, 2004 http://www.mrfa.org/arl38.htm Check this out. I wonder what inspired the US Navy to name a ship "Krishna"? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted March 8, 2004 Wow ! A US ship called Krishna from 1946!? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dervish 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2004 "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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
