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|Ship image=File:USSARD10atMareIslandNavyYard.jpg
|Ship caption=USS ''ARD-10'' at Mare Island Navy Yard, with a submarine in her dock
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1946}}
|Ship name=USS ''ARD-10''
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|Ship builder=[[Pacific Bridge Company]]
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|Ship commissioned=October 1943
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|Ship struck=July 1972
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|Ship fate=Sold to private interests
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|Ship class={{sclass|ARD-2|auxiliary repair dock}}
|Ship displacement=4,200 tons (light)
|Ship length={{convert|482|ft|7|in|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|71|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship draft={{convert|5|ft|abbr=on}}
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|Ship complement=131
|Ship armament=2 x [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm]]
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[[File:USSARD-10receivingnewpaintatMareIslandNavalShipyardVallejoCA.jpg|thumb|right|USS ''ARD-10'' receiving a new paint job at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.]]
'''USS ''ARD-10''''' was an [[auxiliary repair dock]] in the service of the [[United States Navy]] in [[World War II]] as an [[auxiliary floating drydock]], built by [[Pacific Bridge Company]]. As was common with other auxiliary repair docks, the ship was only known by her designation and was not otherwise named.

''ARD-10'' was commissioned in [[Alameda, California]] in October 1943. She was towed by {{USS|Yuma|ATF-94|2}} from [[San Francisco, California]] on 12 December 1943 first to [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] and then on to [[Melbourne]] on 1 February 1944. ''Yuma'' and ''ARD-10'' finally arrived at [[Fremantle, Western Australia]], on 6 March 1944. There ''ARD-10'' served the submarine base until end of the war.

''ARD-10'' returned to the United States after  in 1946. She was stricken from US Navy service in July 1972 and subsequently sold to Bendershipbuilding Repair Co. of Mexico. {{as of|2013|2|6}} the ship was still operational.
 
''ARD-10'' was a member of the ''ARD-2'' class of Auxiliary Repair Drydocks (ARD).  The ''ARD-2'' class of drydocks dates to early World War II and were towed to where they were required, generally forward area anchorages. Five of the 7 ''ARD-2''-class drydocks built are still in existence in foreign navies. The {{convert|486|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} ARD could handle World War II-era ships up to destroyer size.

==References==
* [http://www.gremark.com/USSYuma/LeonWarDiary.html Account] of a sailor on the ''Yuma'' during her journey with ''ARD-10'' to Australia
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/67/6710.htm Navsource]
*Visible Letters 'ARD 10' on aft hull of background ship in the Clint Eastwood movie, "Magnum Force", visible just over Hal Holbrook's shoulder in final scene of the film at San Francisco Dock 54.
{{ARD-2 class auxiliary repair dock}}

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[[Category:ARD-2-class floating drydocks]]
[[Category:Ships built in Alameda, California]]
[[Category:1943 ships]]
[[Category:World War II auxiliary ships of the United States]]
[[Category:Floating drydocks of the United States Navy]]


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