USS Callisto
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USS Callisto (AGP-15) was a Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tender built for the United States Navy during World War II. It was originally ordered as USS LST-966 an LST-542-class tank landing ship, but renamed and re-designated in August 1944.
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USS Callisto (AGP-15) underway in Chesapeake Bay off Port Covington, Baltimore, Maryland, 19 June 1945, just after completion of conversion. This ship had one "A" frame hoist, to port. | |
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Namesake | Callisto, a nymph attendant of Artemis |
Builder | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts |
Yard number | 3436[1] |
Laid down | 31 October 1944 |
Launched | 29 November 1944 |
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Decommissioned | 9 May 1946 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tender |
Displacement | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t) |
Length | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 11.6 kn (21.5 km/h; 13.3 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 x LCVPs |
Complement | 41 officers, 245 enlisted men |
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