USS Araner (IX-226)

History
United States
Ordered:	as SS Juan de Fuca
Builder:	Kaiser Shipbuilding Company
Laid down:	15 November 1942
Launched:	27 December 1942
Acquired:	23 September 1945
In service:	23 September 1945
Out of service:	22 August 1946
Struck:	29 October 1948
Fate:	Sold for scrap 3 March 1948
General characteristics
Displacement:	14,269 tons
Length:	422 ft 8 in (128.83 m)
Beam:	57 ft (17 m)
Draft:	27 ft 8 in (8.43 m)
Complement:	110

The USS Araner (IX-226) was laid down as the liberty ship SS Juan de Fuca under a Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 1747) on 15 November 1942 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company and launched on 27 December 1942. She was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 11 January 1943.

Throughout World War II, she served as a cargo carrier operated under a WSA contract by the Weyerhauser Steamship Company. During the Mindoro Campaign she was torpedoed and damaged by a Japanese aircraft, without casualties, in the Philippine Sea 20 miles off Mindoro, The Philippines. She was beached on Ambulong Island. She was refloated and towed to Subic Bay. Later repaired and entered United States Navy service as USS Araner (IX-226) on 23 September 1945 and placed in service that same day with Lieutenant Henry Morath in charge.

Araner appears to have contributed very little service to the United States Navy. She was inspected by an inspection and survey board at Leyte during October, the month following the beginning of her naval service. In January 1946, probably as a result of that inspection, she received orders to be towed to Subic Bay where all her naval gear was stripped pending her deactivation. On 22 August 1946, she was placed out of service at Subic Bay and simultaneously turned over to the Maritime Commission's War Shipping Administration for disposal. That organization finally sold her to the Asia Development Corporation. on 3 March 1948 for scrapping. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 29 October 1948.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1944
Shipwrecks	1 Dec: HMS Empire Dace 2 Dec: Hawaii Maru 3 Dec: USS Cooper, Revoljucija 4 Dec: Kishinami 5 Dec: Hozu, USS LSM-149 6 Dec: Antoine Saugrain, HMS Bullen, U-297 7 Dec: USS Mahan, USS Ward 9 Dec: U-387 10 Dec: William S. Ladd 11 Dec: USS Reid 12 Dec: Uzuki, U-416, Yūzuki, Z35, Z36 13 Dec: U-365 14 Dec: HMS Aldenham 15 Dec: USS LST-472, USS LST-738 17 Dec: U-772 18 Dec: USS Hull, USS Monaghan, Schleswig-Holstein, USS Spence, Theresia L M Russ, U-1209, Zähringen 19 Dec: U-737, Unryū 21 Dec: USS LST-749 22 Dec: USS LST-563 24 Dec: Alan A. Dale, HMCS Clayoquot, Léopoldville 26 Dec: HMS Capel, Kiyoshimo, U-2342 27 Dec: U-877 28 Dec: Empire Javelin, John Burke, U-735 29 Dec: U-322 30 Dec: USS Porcupine 31 Dec: U-2530 Unknown date: Ha-83, U-196, U-400
Other incidents	5 Dec: Antoine Saugrain, Hira 9 Dec: Jun'yō 13 Dec: Myōkō, USS Nashville 25 Dec: HMS Dakins 26 Dec: HMS Affleck 30 Dec: Juan de Fuca, USS Orestes Unknown date: HMS Charlestown, U-262
1943 1944 1945 November 1944 January 1945

• "Official Chronology of the US Navy in WWII". Ibiblio. Retrieved 31 December 2014.