Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey
Yard number
175
Laid down
3 June 1940
Launched
2 November 1940
Acquired
27 December 1940 (delivered to Lykes Brothers Steamship Company)
1 March 1941 (Navy)
Commissioned
19 March 1941, as USS Otus (AS–20)
Decommissioned
20 August 1946
Reclassified
ARG–20 (Repair Ship, Internal Combustion Engines), 25 June 1945
Stricken
25 September 1946
Honours and awards
1 battle star (WWII)
Fate
Scrapped 1970
General characteristics
Type
Internal combustion engine repair ship
Displacement
5,775 long tons (5,868 t) light
Length
417 ft 9 in (127.33 m)
Beam
60 ft (18 m)
Draft
20 ft 2 in (6.15 m)
Propulsion
De Laval steam turbine
Speed
15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement
644 officers and enlisted
Armament
2 × twin 4 in (100 mm) gun mounts
USS Otus (AS-20) was a submarine tender in service with the United States Navy from 1941 to 1946. In 1945, she was converted to an internal combustion engine repair ship and redesignated ARG-20. Decommissioned in 1946, she was scrapped in 1970.
USSOtus (AS-20) was a submarine tender in service with the United States Navy from 1941 to 1946. In 1945, she was converted to an internal combustion...
Look up otus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Otus may refer to: Otus (education), a K-12 educational technology company HMS Otus, two ships in the...
repair ship USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16) USS Hooper Island (ARG-17) USS Beaver (ARG-19), ex-AS-5 USSOtus (ARG-20), ex-AS-20 Basilan class USS Basilan (ARG-12)...
arrival at Darwin, Trinity filled the depleted fuel bunkers of USS Holland (AS-3) and USSOtus (AS-20), the submarine tenders to the Asiatic Fleet submarine...
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civilian service as depot ship for Subron 4. USS Orion was stationed at Fremantle and New Guinea. USSOtus was under conversion from civilian service at...
of the submarine tender USSOtus (ARG-20) worked at the base from December 10, 1941 to January 1942. The submarine tender USS Holland (AS3) arrived on...
together in so-called safe houses. USS Clytie (AS-26) USS Holland (AS-3) USS Anthedon (AS-24) USS Pelias (AS-14) USSOtus (AS-20) Submarines known to have...
was lost at sea in a US Navy PBM3S patrol seaplane, Bu. No.6545, Sqd VPB2-OTU#3, in the Bermuda Triangle. They left Naval Air Station, Banana River, Florida...
(USS Tarawa, USS Nassau) Iwo Jima class (USS Iwo Jima, USS Guam, USS Tripoli, USS New Orleans) Guided missile cruisers Leahy class (USS Worden, USS England...
USS Isabel (SP-521), later PY-10, was a yacht in commission in the United States Navy as a destroyer from 1917 to 1920 and as a patrol yacht from 1921...
Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan HMS Otus (S18), a submarine of the Royal Navy SMS S18 (1912), a torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy USS S-18 (SS-123), a submarine...
duhnen.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-25. "HMS Otus- das U-Boot in Sassnitz auf Rügen". hms-otus.com (in German). "Technik Museum Speyer – Rheinland-Pfalz...
November 1940. He served on the oiler Sepulga (AO-20) and on the repair ship Otus (AS-20) from 25 March 1941. On 13 December 1941 Donaldson was given command...
Strikes-Again-with-Operation-Restoration-USS-North-Carolina). Archived 2011-01-12 at the Wayback Machine USS North Carolina. Retrieved: 12 January 2011...
USS Thornton (AVD-11). 20 December – Aircraft from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) mistakenly bombed the U.S. Navy submarine USS Pompano (SS-181)...
USS Alden (DD-211) was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy (USN). Serving during World War II, Alden is the only ship of the US Navy to...
of ship was sunk. Unmarked Jolly Rogers were flown by HMS Opossum and HMS Otus on their return from deployments during the Gulf War: this was suspected...
the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, on board the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay. The island is roughly 1,300 km (810 mi) long...
distinct fauna of the island; the specific species noted were Macropygia, otus, Eudynamys, and Hylorpe. Of the Luzon group only Cnnyria whitchiadi, Zosterups...
2019. Lange, Katie (November 14, 2019). "The Legacy the Recently Discovered USS Grayback Left Behind". U.S. Department of Defense. "3D Archaeological Models...
a stop on Barrow road to the south of the airfield, while ferrying from USS Theodore Roosevelt. No crew members were injured. On 23 September 1988 a...
Fred Morris (MC-70) as submarine tender Otus (AS-20) and then as internal combustion engone repair ship Otus (ARG-20) Navy troop transports SS Cape Johnson...
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates HMS Otus Royal Navy September 1946 An Odin-class submarine that was scuttled off Durban. 29°52′21″S 31°05′39″E...
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