Tucana (AK-88)
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| Career (US) |
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| Ordered: |
as MV Symmes Potter
N3-M-A1 hull, MC hull 651 |
| Laid down: |
24 April 1944 |
| Launched: |
13 September 1944 |
| Struck: |
13 September 1944 |
| Fate: |
Transferred to the U.S. Army
scrapped in 1968 |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
1,677 t.(lt), 5,202 t.(fl) |
| Length: |
269 ft 10 in (82.25 m) |
| Beam: |
42 ft 6 in (12.95 m) |
| Draft: |
20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) |
| Propulsion: |
diesel, single shaft, 1,300shp |
| Speed: |
10 kts. |
| Complement: |
83 |
| Armament: |
3"/50 dual purpose gun mount |
Tucana (AK-88)[Note 1] was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation.[1]. She was transferred upon launching on 13 September 1944 to the U.S. Army as the U.S. Army Port Repair ship Arthur C. Ely.
Service career
AK-88 was originally authorized under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 651) and assigned the name MV Symmes Potter. The name Tucana was assigned to her by the Navy on 30 October 1942; and, on 1 January 1943, her contract was transferred from the Maritime Commission to the supervision of the Navy. AK-88 to become an Enceladus-class cargo ship. The ship was laid down on 24 April 1944 at Camden, New Jersey, by the Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 13 September 1944; and sponsored by Mrs. Patrick J. Cushing. On that same day, she was reassigned and delivered to the Army, and her name was struck from the Navy list. She was delivered to the U.S. Army and commissioned USAT Arthur C. Ely, a Port Rehabilitation vessel
Notes
- ^ Only USS Enceladus (AK-80) of the ten ships of the Enceladus class, composed of Maritime Commission N3-M-A1 type small cargo vessels, saw significant naval service. Of the other nine, excpting USS Hydra (AK-82), all were transferred within months or days of shipyard delivery to Navy to the Army. Hydra was transferred to Army shortly after commissioning and trials. Navy had assumed the administration of contracts for these ships from the Maritime Commission on 1 January 1943 during or before construction and thus most were only administratively Navy, including names and numbers, during construction.
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