USS Deucalion

USS Deucalion (AR-15) was the third ship of the Amphion-class of repair ship built for the United States Navy by Tampa Shipbuilding Company during World War II. Named after Deucalion the mythological king of Thessaly, her keel was laid down on December 15, 1944, but her construction was canceled on August 12, 1945, shortly after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

History
United States
Name	USS Deucalion
Ordered	August 4, 1944
Builder	Tampa Shipbuilding Company
Laid down	December 15, 1944
Identification	AR-15
Fate	Canceled, August 12, 1945 Fate unknown
General characteristics
Class and type	Amphion-class repair ship
Displacement	7,826 light, 16,900 lim.
Length	492 ft (150 m)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
Draft	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Propulsion	8500HP, Westinghouse Curtis turbine, 1 screw
Speed	18.4 knots (34.1 km/h; 21.2 mph)
Complement	741
Armament	2 × 5 in (130 mm) guns 4 × twin 40 mm 8 × twin 20 mm
Notes	Largest Boom Capacity 30 t.

Designed and built to carry out a primary mission of making emergency and routine repairs to ships of the fleet during periods of technical availability, Deucalion was to be equipped with a wide variety of repair shops: shipfitter, carpentry, pipe and copper, sheet metal, welding, canvas, watch, optical, foundry—in short, facilities that employed skilled artificers capable of repairing hardware from precision watches to heavy machinery and hulls. "These shops are limited in what they can do, only by the size of their equipment." Her modern engineering plant could generate enough electricity for not only herself but ships moored alongside undergoing repairs. Her distilling plant could produce water for herself and for other vessels.

External links

• http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/25/2515.htm
• http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ar15.htm
• http://www.destroyers.org/shiplist/ad-ar.htm