USS Arcadia (AD-23)
USS Arcadia was one of four Klondike-class destroyer tenders built at the tail end of World War II for the United States Navy, and the third U.S. Naval vessel to bear that name. Destroyer tenders were typically named after U.S. National Parks. However the destroyer tender AD-23 was apparently misnamed Arcadia in an effort to commemorate Acadia National Park in Maine.
Arcadia was laid down by Todd Shipyards Corporation on 6 March 1944 at Los Angeles, California, launched on 19 November, sponsored by Mrs. Edward L. Beach (the widow of Captain Edward L. Beach), fitted out at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California and commissioned on 13 September 1945 with Capt. James M. Connally in command.
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Famous quotes containing the word arcadia:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)