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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Vulcain.

USS Agenor in 1945
History
USS AgenorUnited States
NameAgenor
NamesakeAgenor
BuilderPermanente Metals Corporation, Richmond
Yard number45[1]
Laid down24 January 1943
Launched3 April 1943
Commissioned20 August 1943
Decommissioned15 November 1946
ReclassifiedARL-3, 13 January 1943
Stricken26 March 1951
Identification
  • Callsign: NJVB
  • Hull number: LST-490
Honors and
awards		See Awards
FateTransferred to France, 2 March 1951
USS AgenorFrance
NameVulcain
NamesakeVulcain
Acquired2 March 1951
Stricken26 March 1951
IdentificationHull number: A656
FateTransferred to the Republic of China, 15 September 1957
USS AgenorRepublic of China
Name
  • Song Shan
  • (嵩山)
NamesakeSong Shan
Acquired30 September 1957
Commissioned1 November 1957
Renamed
  • Wu Tai, 1 August 1968
  • (五台)
NamesakeWu Tai
DecommissionedApril 1983
Reclassified
  • ARL-236
  • AP-520, 1968
IdentificationHull number: ARL-336
General characteristics [2]
Class and typeAchelous-class repair ship
Displacement
  • 3,900 long tons (4,000 t) (light)
  • 4,100 long tons (4,200 t) (full load)
Length328 ft (100 m)
Beam50 ft (15 m)
Draft11 ft 2 in (3.40 m)
Installed power
  • 2 × Electro-Motive Diesel 12-567A diesel engines
  • 1,800 shp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion
  • 1 × Falk main reduction gears
  • 2 × Propellers
Speed12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement22 officers, 233 enlisted men
Armament1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50 caliber dual-purpose gun

2 × quad 40 millimetres (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) guns

6 × twin 20 millimetres (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannons
Service record
Operations:
  • Capture and occupation of Saipan (25 June–21 July 1944)
  • Capture and occupation of Guam (1–15 August 1944)
  • Tinian Capture and occupation (24–31 July 1944)
  • Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima (19 February–16 March 1945)
Awards:
  • American Campaign Medal
  • Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal
  • World War II Victory Medal

USS Agenor (ARL-3) was one of 39 Achelous-class repair ship landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Agenor (in history and in Greek mythology, a king of Tyre), she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

  1. ^ Kaiser No. 4 2014.
  2. ^ Navsource 2014.

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