The Klondike class destroyer tenders were a Navy adaptation of the Maritime Commission's C3 fast cargo ship design.

After shakedown, Klondike loaded hundreds of tons of spares and stores in preparation for the task of supplying and maintaining destroyers.

While en route to Sasebo, she offered assistance 6 through 9 August 1963 to a distressed Greek freighter Cryssism during a raging typhoon.

Klondike operated in the Far East until 30 November, then she returned to the United States, arriving San Diego on 14 December 1963.

[2] Klondike was struck from the Naval Register on 15 September 1974, after which time custody was transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal.