Auxiliary Rescue and Salvage (ARS)
Keel Laid: Aug 10, 1944
Launched : Jan 27, 1945
Commissioned: June 9, 1945
Decommissioned: Sept 30, 1986
Recommissioned: Sept 30,1987
Decommissioned: April 1, 1994
Builder: Basalt Rock Company, Napa, CA
Propulsion: Diesel electric
Propellers: two
Length: 213.6 ft
Beam: 43 ft
Draft: 13.1 ft
Displacement: approx. 1.900 tons
Speed: 16 knots
Crew: 6-9 officers, 77 enlisted
USS Conserver was sunk as a target in a SINKEX north of the island of Kauai, Hawaii, on November 13, 2004