If the name does not sound familiar to you World War Two
Veterans its because this is the name it was given when I was
introduced to this 63ft boat. You may know it as a Crash Boat,
Emergency Rescue Boat, Air Sea Rescue boat, and as the plaque
on the boat reads ARB. I know for you military people that ARB
in WWII meant Battle Damage Repair Ship, but that's the name
given by the builders of these boats.
Let me tell you how I was introduced to these boats. I joined
the Sea Scout Ship Tiger Shark 1978, and they had a 63ft AVR,
and I took to it like ducks take to water. Also in the Sea
Scouts was the Farrallon, Compass Rose, Sea Witch, Chaser, and
the Revenge where all 63ft AVR's. You really need to see these
boats to appreciate them. That's one of the reasons I started
this page was to let you know about them, and second was to
gather any information I could about these boats before all
the records are gone.
The Navy, Army Air Corps, and Army Corps of Engineers used
them. So if you have any information on these boats during
WWII please let me know (boat #, area of operation, squadron
#, combat stories, logbooks, pictures, manuals), you can use
my E-mail at the bottom of this page.
AVR Blueprints of the Deck Plan AVR Blueprints of the Inboard Plan & Profile AVR Blueprints of the Outboard Plan AVR Aircraft Rescue boat at high speed (size 353KB) AVR1 Stern view of three boats underway. AVR2 Port quarter view underway AVR3 Port bow underway (good photo from a magazine) AVR4 Crash boat gose to the rescue of a downed PBY. The U.S.S. Guadalcanal CVE-60 in the background June 19, 1945. (size 356KB)
Thanks to David Ford for the next 4 photos. AVR5 Pictures of 4 AVR's 160(B70) 152(B66) 153(B67) 154(B68) Photo taken from 155(B69)(size 1.25MB) AVR6 Model 152 Under construction(size 955KB) AVR7 All the people at Miami Boat Yard who helped build it.(size 2.43MB) AVR8 Model 292 (flush deck) Russian Patrol Craft (Sub Chaser)(size 1.13MB)
Sea Scouts
TIGER SHARK
A photo of the Tiger Shark on the Sacramento Delta just coming off Steamboat Slough NORTHLAND The boats are on the Sacramento River, at steamboaters landing. They
are the SSS Northland and the SSS Marion J Byne (Belmonster).
Photo was sent to me by Shaun boatswain's mate on the Northland SURF (EX-WIN-DEE) S.S.S. Neptune Web-Page Thanks to Nate Eckler
Executive Officer, S.S.S. Neptune for the following web-page 63' AVRs and 104' ASRs ready for deployment at the Stephens Bros. Museum. Photo courtesy of the Haggin Museum Compass Rose
Thanks to Dave Stanberry of the Compass Rose. The one in the cradle was taken at Mare Island 8/78
and the other one was taken in Petaluma 12/77 ...maybe 76.
Private
Orel Thanks to Gene Orloff for this photo The background is Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay Seafarer Thanks to Gary Humphreys for this nice picture of his AVR.
If anyone would like to contribute a photo of his or her AVR please send me a scanned photo.
