USS Amycus
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USS Amycus (ARL-2) was one of 39 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Amycus (in Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and Melia), she was the only US Naval vessel to bear the name.[3]
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USS Amycus (ARL-2) off San Francisco, 10 August 1943. Note the 3-inch/50-caliber gun on the extreme stern with the Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun quad mount just forward of and above it. | |
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United States | |
Name | Amycus |
Namesake | King Amykos |
Ordered | as a Type S3-M-K2 hull, MCE hull 1009[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 44[1] |
Laid down | 17 January 1943 |
Launched | 2 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 30 July 1943 |
Decommissioned | 15 November 1946 |
Reclassified | Landing Craft Repair Ship, 13 January 1943 |
Stricken | 1 June 1970 |
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Honors and awards | 2 × battle stars |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 13 August 1971 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Achelous-class repair ship |
Displacement | |
Length | 328 ft (100 m) |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 22 officers, 233 enlisted men |
Armament | 1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50 caliber dual-purpose gun
2 × quad 40 millimetres (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) guns 6 × twin 20 millimetres (0.79 in) Oelikon AA cannons |
Service record | |
Part of: | United States Seventh Fleet (1943-46) |
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