SMY12 USS Vestal (AR 4) USN Repair Ship.  Built 1908-1910 New York, Navy Yard; 6625 ton displ. 465.75x60.1x18 feet; Recp. SHP=14 kts; 4x5"/51 + 2x3"/50 guns.  1908 built as Fleet Collier USS ERIE; 10.1912 - 9.1913 converted to Repair Ship renamed VESTAL.  WWI European service; 1925-26 salvage operations for USS S-51.  On 7 Dec 1941 at Pearl Harbor moored alongside USS ARIZONA.  Heavily damaged by two bombs and explosion of ARIZONA's magazine, run ashore.  Repaired at Pearl Harbor, from 8.1942-mid 1944 in SoWest Pacific; 4.1945 Okinawa.  Stricken Sept. 1946.  Sistership USS PROMETHEUS (AR 3), ex-Collier USS ONTARIO.