USS Numitor (ARL-17)

USS Numitor (ARL-17) underway, date and location unknown.
History
Name:	USS Numitor
Laid down:	19 September 1944
Launched:	18 October 1944
Commissioned:	3 April 1945
Decommissioned:	1 July 1947
Struck:	1 April 1960
Fate:	Sold, and converted to a drydock
General characteristics
Class & type:	Achelous class repair ship
Displacement:	2,125 long tons (2,159 t)
Length:	328 ft (100 m)
Beam:	50 ft (15 m)
Draft:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Speed:	12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Complement:	253 officers and enlisted
Armament:	8 × 40 mm guns 8 × 20 mm guns

USS Numitor (ARL-17) (originally designated LST-954) was one of 39 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Numitor (in Roman mythology, King Numitor of Alba Longa, son of Procas, and the father of Rhea Silvia), she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

Numitor was laid down on 19 September 1944 at Bethlehem Hingham Corporation of Hingham, Massachusetts and launched on 18 October 1944. After conversion by Bethlehem Key Highway Yard in Baltimore was commissioned on 3 April 1945 with Lieutenant Davis Minshew in command.

Service history

After shakedown in Chesapeake Bay, the landing-craft repair ship departed Norfolk, Virginia 12 May 1945; transited the Panama Canal; received additional gear on the West Coast, sailed via Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, and Caroline Islands, and reached Okinawa, 10 August 1945. With the end of World War II her base of operations transferred to Sasebo, Japan where the ship continued in occupation service from 22 September until 22 February 1946.

Returning to the United States, Numitor again transited the Panama Canal and arrived Orange, Texas. 17 June 1946. Initially assisting in the deactivation of other vessels, she was placed out of commission in reserve 1 July 1947. Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 April 1960, ARL–17 was sold to the Southern Scrap Material Co. of New Orleans, Louisiana. The hull was later sold to the Dravo Corporation for conversion to a drydock.

USS Numitor (ARL-17) with miscellaneous naval ships and craft alongside including LCT-960, date and place unknown.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.