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USS Alecto

Tender of the United States Navy

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	USS Alecto (AGP-14) Chesapeake Bay 7 August 1945.jpg
image_caption	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.
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United States
flag
name	Alecto
namesake	Alecto
builder	Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
yard_number	3447
laid_down	12 December 1944
launched	15 January 1945
commissioned	* 8 February 1945, partial commission
decommissioned	* 23 February 1945
struck	28 June 1947
identification	*Hull symbol: LST-977
fate	Transferred to Turkey, 10 May 1948
section3	{{Infobox ship/image
image	TCG Onaran (A581).jpg
image_caption	TCG Onaran (A581) underway, date and location unknown. Note the A-frame cranes have been eliminated.
section4	{{Infobox ship/career
hide_header	title
country	Turkey
flag	Turkey
name	Onaran
acquired	10 May 1948
identification	Hull symbol: A581
fate	Scrapped 1993
section5	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class
displacement	4100 LT
length
beam
draft	11 ft
power
propulsion
speed
boats
complement	41 officers, 245 enlisted men

28 July 1945, full commission
28 June 1946
Hull symbol: AGP-15
Code letters: NJYB
2 × quad 40 mm Bofors guns
8 × single 20 mm Oerlikon cannons

USS Alecto (AGP-14) was a built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally ordered as '*USS *LST-977''''' an , but renamed and re-designated on 12 June 1944.

Construction

Alecto was laid down on 12 December 1944, at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; launched on 15 January 1945; acquired by the Navy and placed in commission on 8 February 1945, for movement to Baltimore, decommissioned there on 23 February 1945, for conversion by the Maryland Drydock Co. to a motor torpedo boat tender; and recommissioned on 28 July 1945.

Service history

The tender got underway on 6 August, for shakedown training in the Chesapeake Bay and, on 2 September, was assigned to Service Forces, Atlantic Fleet. Following a period of training and upkeep at Norfolk, Virginia, she sailed for Albany, New York, on 14 October, and arrived there two days later.

Alecto moored at the Army Supply Depot at Albany and began servicing motor torpedo boats. On 10 November, the ship moved to Melville, Rhode Island, and engaged in repair work for Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron (MTBRon) 4. In January 1946, she made two voyages from Melville to Solomons Island, Maryland, transporting equipment for MTBRon 4 and, from March through May, she was stationed there. She sailed to Charleston, South Carolina, in early June, and was placed out of commission there on 28 June 1946. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 28 June 1947. The vessel was transferred to the government of Turkey on 10 May 1948, and was later renamed Onaran (A581).

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