USS ''Cadmus'' (AR-14) was a of the United States Navy during World War II. ''Cadmus'' launched on 5 August 1945 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company in Tampa, Florida, and sponsored by Mrs. B. P. Ward. ''Cadmus'' was commissioned 23 April 1946.

Service history

Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, ''Cadmus'' operated from her home port at

Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Be ...

, as a repair ship. Calls to east coast ports and cruises in the

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

were part of a schedule which called for service to the Fleet during major exercises. On 3 September 1957, the repair ship cleared Norfolk on her first Atlantic crossing. After taking part in NATO

Operation Strikeback Exercise Strikeback was a major naval exercise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that took place over a ten-day period in September 1957. As part of a series of exercises to simulate an all-out Soviet attack on NATO, Exercise S ...

exercises with Task Force 88 (TF 88) out of Rothesay, Scotland, she visited ports in Scotland, France, and Spain. Through the first half of 1958, she sailed with TF 63 in replenishment missions during fleet exercises in the Mediterranean. From her return to Norfolk on 7 May 1958 through 1960, ''Cadmus'' continued her program of east coast and

operations. ''Cadmus'' moved her homeport to Newport, Rhode Island in 1964. ''Cadmus'' was decommissioned on 14 September 1971 and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 January 1974. ''Cadmus'' was sold under the National Security Assistance Program to the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

on 22 April 1974. She served as ROCS ''Yu Tai'' (A-521).

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cadmus Amphion-class repair ships 1945 ships Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Republic of China Navy Auxiliary ships of the Republic of China Navy Ships built in Tampa, Florida