USS Alecto
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USS Alecto (AGP-14) was a Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tender built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally ordered as USS LST-977 an LST-542-class tank landing ship, but renamed and re-designated on 12 June 1944.
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USS Alecto (AGP-14) underway in Chesapeake Bay off Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland, 7 August 1945, just after completion of conversion. The second (starboard) "A" frame hoist is clearly visible. | |
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United States | |
Name | Alecto |
Namesake | Alecto |
Builder | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts |
Yard number | 3447[1] |
Laid down | 12 December 1944 |
Launched | 15 January 1945 |
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Decommissioned |
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Stricken | 28 June 1947 |
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Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 10 May 1948 |
TCG Onaran (A581) underway, date and location unknown. Note the A-frame cranes have been eliminated. | |
Turkey | |
Name | Onaran |
Acquired | 10 May 1948 |
Identification | Hull symbol: A581 |
Fate | Scrapped 1993 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tender |
Displacement | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t) |
Length | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 11.6 kn (21.5 km/h; 13.3 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 x LCVPs |
Complement | 41 officers, 245 enlisted men |
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