USSNumitor (ARL-17) underway, date and location unknown.
History
United States
Name	LST-954 Numitor
Namesake	Numitor
Builder	Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard,Hingham, Massachusetts
Yard number	3424[1]
Laid down	19 September 1944
Launched	18 October 1944
Commissioned	3 April 1945
Decommissioned	1 July 1947
Renamed	14 August 1944
Stricken	1 April 1960
Identification	Hull symbol: LST-954 Hull symbol: ARL-17 Code letters: NKFF
Fate	Sold, and converted to adrydock
General characteristics[2]
Class & type	LST-542-classtank landing ship Achelous-classrepair ship
Displacement	3,900long tons (4,000 t) light 4,100 long tons (4,200 t) full load
Length	328 ft (100 m)oa
Beam	50 ft (15 m)
Draft	11 ft 2 in (3.40 m)
Installed power	2 × 900 hp (670 kW)Electro-Motive Diesel12-567Adiesel engines 1,800 shp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Falk mainreduction gears 2 ×Propellers
Speed	11.6 kn (21.5 km/h; 13.3 mph)
Complement	22 officers, 233 enlisted men
Armament	1 ×3 in (76 mm)/50 caliberdual purpose gun 2 × quad40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors guns (withMark 51 director) 6 × twin20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons

USSNumitor (ARL-17) was to be laid down as anLST-542-classtank landing ship but was instead laid down as one of 39Achelous-classrepair shipslanding craft repair ships built for theUnited States Navy duringWorld War II. Named forNumitor (inRoman mythology, King Numitor ofAlba Longa, son ofProcas, and the father ofRhea Silvia), she was the only US Naval vessel to bear the name.

LST-954 was redesignatedARL-17 and namedNumitor on 14 August 1944.^[3]Numitor was laid down on 19 September 1944, atHingham, Massachusetts, by theBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; launched on 18 October 1944. After conversion byBethlehem Key Highway Shipyard,Baltimore, Maryland, she was commissioned on 3 April 1945.^[4]

Aftershakedown inChesapeake Bay, the landing-craft repair ship departedNorfolk, Virginia 12 May 1945; transited thePanama Canal; received additional gear on the West Coast, sailed viaPearl Harbor, theMarshall Islands, andCaroline Islands, and reachedOkinawa, 10 August 1945. With the end of World War II her base of operations transferred toSasebo, Japan, where the ship continued in occupation service from 22 September until 22 February 1946.^[4]

Returning to the United States,Numitor again transited the Panama Canal and arrived inOrange, Texas, on 17 June 1946. Initially assisting in the deactivation of other vessels, she was placed out of commission in reserve on 1 July 1947. Struck from theNaval Vessel Register on 1 April 1960,Numitor was sold to theSouthern Scrap Material Co., ofNew Orleans, Louisiana. The hull was later sold to theDravo Corporation for conversion to adrydock.^[4]

• Photo gallery of USSNumitor (ARL-17) at NavSource Naval History

• Achelous-class repair ships
• Achelous-class repair ships converted from LST-542-class ships
• World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
• Ships built in Hingham, Massachusetts
• 1944 ships

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