page_title: USS Salvager
hierarchical_section_title: USS Salvager
caption_attribution_description: English: The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Baldwin (DD-624) during operations to refloat her at Montauk Point, Long Island, New York (USA), at 1030 hrs. on 28 April 1961. Among the ships engaged in the salvage effort are USS Hoist (ARS-40), USS Salvager (ARSD-3), USS Windlass (ARSD-4) and a fleet tug (ATF). Baldwin was decommissioned on 20 June 1946 and laid up. In April 1961, she was to be transferred from Boston, Massachusetts (USA), to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). Baldwin ran aground about 3.2 km southwest of Montauk Point, Long Island, in the early afternoon of 16 April 1961 when the towline parted during the passage to Philadelphia. Windlass successfully pulled her free. However, Baldwin was considered not worth repairing. Her name was struck from the U.S. Navy List on 1 June 1961, and she was scuttled on 6 June 1961, not far from where she went aground.
context_page_description: USS Salvager, a Gypsy-class salvage lifting vessel of the United States Navy, was originally conceived as LSM-551, was reclassified ARS-3 on 24 April 1945; named Salvager on 1 May 1945; laid down on 27 August 1945 by the Brown Shipbuilding Corporation, Houston, Texas; launched on 7 December 1945; and commissioned on 22 March 1946, Lieutenant Commander Howard L. Kubel, USNR, in command.
context_section_description: USS Salvager (ARS(D)-3), a Gypsy-class salvage lifting vessel of the United States Navy, was originally conceived as LSM-551, was reclassified ARS(D)-3 on 24 April 1945; named Salvager on 1 May 1945; laid down on 27 August 1945 by the Brown Shipbuilding Corporation, Houston, Texas; launched on 7 December 1945; and commissioned on 22 March 1946, Lieutenant Commander Howard L. Kubel, USNR, in command.
caption: USS Salvager (far center), along with Windlass (ARS(D)-4) (near center), Hoist (ARS-40) (far left), and a fleet tug (left) laboring to float the grounded Baldwin (DD-624) (far right) on 28 April 1961 off Montauk Point
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