USS Reclaimer in San Diego Bay in 1965
Photo by Unknown, 11/30/1965
The USS Reclaimer (ARS-42) was a Bolster-class rescue and salvage ship, earning five battle stars for Korean War service and 8 campaign stars for Vietnam War service. She was commissioned in 1945, contaminated during the 'Operation Crossroads' atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946 and decommissioned in 1947, and then recommissioned in 1950 to serve in the Korean war. She operated in Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Marshall Islands and Alaska until she was decommissioned in 1994. Reclaimer was dismantled for scrap in 2011 in Brownsville, Texas.