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Aristaeus-class repair ship

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Class overview
Name	Aristaeus class
Builders	Philadelphia Navy Yard Dravo Corporation Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. Bethlehem Steel Co. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
Operators	United States Navy  Brazilian Navy  German Navy
Built	1943-1945
In commission	1943-1947
Planned	12
Completed	12
Laid up	1
Retired	12
General characteristics
Type	Repair ship
Displacement	1,781 t (1,753 long tons) light 4,100 t (4,035 long tons) full load
Length	328 ft (100 m) oa
Beam	50 ft (15 m)
Draft	Full load: 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m) forward; 14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) aft Landing at 2,160 t: 3 ft 11 in (1.19 m) forward; 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) aft
Installed power	2 × 900 hp (670 kW) Electro-Motive Diesel 12-567A diesel engines 1,700 shp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Falk main reduction gears 2 × Propellers
Speed	12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range	24,000 nmi (44,000 km; 28,000 mi) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) while displacing 3,960 long tons (4,024 t)
Boats & landing craft carried	2 or 6 x LCVPs
Capacity	2,100 tons oceangoing maximum 350 tons main deckload
Troops	20officers, 234 enlisted men
Complement	13 officers, 104 enlisted men
Armament	1 × single 3"/50 cal gun 2 × quad Bofors 40 mm guns 8 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons

The Aristaeus-class repair ship was a class of repair ships of the United States Navy during the Second World War.

Development[edit]

Thirteen ships was converted into a repair ship throughout the later stages of World War II. The ships were converted from the LST-1, LST-491 and LST-542 classes. After the war, few ships were then sold to foreign countries such as Brazil, Greece, Norway and West Germany.

The ship's hull remained nearly the same but with new equipments to carry out her purpose now placed on deck alongside several cranes. The ships' armament had been slightly changed and relocated to make way for the ships' equipments. All ships served in the Pacific Theater until the end of the war with no ships lost in combat.^[1]

MVGordon Jensen (ex-USS Zeus) is still active to this day, serving as a transport and berthing vessel for SNOPAC Products Inc. processing crews in Alaska.^[2]

ARB-13 (ex-USS LST-50) was redesignated as a repair ship on 14 November 1952. She was sold to Norway as HNoMS Ellida (A534) and later sold to Greece as Sakipis (A329).

Ships of class[edit]

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