USS Sphinx
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USS Sphinx (ARL-24) was laid down as a United States Navy LST-542-class tank landing ship but converted to one of 39 Achelous-class repair ships that were used for repairing landing craft during World War II. Named for the Sphinx (a mythical monster formed by joining the body of a lion and the head of a human), she was the only US Naval vessel to bear the name.
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USS Sphinx (ARL-24) underway in Puget Sound prior to recommissioning in 1985 at Bremerton Navy Yard | |
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Namesake | Sphinx |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 20 October 1944 |
Launched | 7 March 1945 |
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Decommissioned | 26 May 1947 |
Recommissioned | 3 November 1950 |
Decommissioned | 31 January 1956 |
Recommissioned | 16 December 1967 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1971 |
Stricken | 16 April 1977 |
Acquired | 1985 |
Recommissioned | 26 July 1985 |
Decommissioned | 16 June 1989 |
Stricken | 2 December 2002 |
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Fate | Towed for scrapping, 1 December 2007 |
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Displacement | |
Length | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) |
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Speed | 11.6 kn (21.5 km/h; 13.3 mph) |
Complement | 21 officers, 232 enlisted men |
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Service record | |
Part of: | Joint Task Force 1 (World War II) |
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