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The USSTyphon (ARL-28)
History
United States
Name	USSTyphon
Builder	Chicago Bridge and Iron Company
Laid down	17 October 1944
Launched	5 January 1945
Commissioned	18 January 1945
Decommissioned	1947
Stricken	1 July 1960
Fate	Sold to private interest, 23 February 1961
General characteristics
Class & type	Achelous classrepair ship
Displacement	2,220 long tons (2,256 t) light 4,100 long tons (4,166 t) full
Length	328 ft (100 m)
Beam	50 ft (15 m)
Draft	11 ft 2 in (3.40 m)
Propulsion	2 ×General Motors12-567diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
Speed	12knots (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Complement	253 officers and enlisted men
Armament	2 × quad40 mm guns (Mark 51 director) 2 × twin 40 mm guns (Mark 51 director) 6 × twin20 mm guns

USSTyphon (ARL-28) was one of 39Achelous-classlanding craft repair ships built for theUnited States Navy duringWorld War II. The ship was named forTyphon, the son ofTartarus andGaea inGreek mythology.

On 14 August 1944 (before her construction began),LST-1118 was reclassified a landing craft repair ship (ARL-28). The ship was namedTyphon on 11 September 1944 and her keel was laid down on 17 October 1944 atSeneca, Illinois by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company; sponsored by Mrs. F. E. Kitteredge, the ship was launched on 5 January 1945 and commissioned on 18 January 1945.

Typhon proceeded down theIllinois Waterway and theMississippi River and reachedNew Orleans on 20 January. She then moved toMobile, Alabama to repair herpropeller blades which she had damaged soon after leaving Seneca. When again ready for sea,Typhon proceeded viaPanama City, Florida toBaltimore, Maryland where she arrived on 13 February. Three days later, she was decommissioned there for completion as a landing craft repair ship. While the conversion was in progress, the ship's officers and men underwent special training atCamp Bradford,Virginia with additional instruction inamphibious warfare atLittle Creek, Virginia. On 18 June 1945Typhon was recommissioned. Ten days later, she got underway forHampton Roads to conduct her shakedown training in theNorfolk area. After post-shakedown inspections, the ship departed Norfolk on 22 July; picked up a load ofpontoons atDavisville, Rhode Island; and headed, via thePanama Canal, for the west coast. En route, the repair ship received word thatJapan had surrendered, ending the war in thePacific. Putting intoSan Diego on 18 August, she unloaded her pontoons and, 10 days later, got underway for theHawaiian Islands, arriving atPearl Harbor on 7 September.

After two months there, she headed westward and proceeded, via theMarianas, to Japan. Anchoring offYokosuka on 16 November, she remained in Japanese waters until early 1946 when she made a brief run back to the Marianas. Returning to Japan with supplies, the repair ship reachedNagasaki on 13 February and remained there until late March, whenTyphon headed for China, arriving atShanghai on 30 March. For almost a year, the ship operated out ofHong Kong and Shanghai, working to support American occupation forces in China. Late in February 1947, she prepared to return home and arrived at San Diego on 29 March. Decommissioned,Typhon was laid up in reserve in 1947 at San Diego. On 1 July 1960 her name was struck from theNaval Vessel Register, and the ship was sold on 23 February 1961 to Al Epstein of New Orleans.

•  This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be foundhere.
• "LST-1118 / ARL-28 Typhon".NavSource. Retrieved3 May 2007.

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