USS ''Deucalion'' (AR-15) was the third ship of the ''Amphion''-class of

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, her keel was laid down on December 15, 1944, but her construction was canceled on August 12, 1945, shortly after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Designed and built to carry out a primary mission of making emergency and routine repairs to ships of the fleet during periods of technical availability, ''Deucalion'' was to be equipped with a wide variety of repair shops: shipfitter, carpentry, pipe and copper, sheet metal, welding, canvas, watch, optical, foundry—in short, facilities that employed skilled artificers capable of repairing hardware from precision watches to heavy machinery and hulls. "These shops are limited in what they can do, only by the size of their equipment." Her modern engineering plant could generate enough electricity for not only herself but ships moored alongside undergoing repairs. Her distilling plant could produce water for herself and for other vessels.

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*http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/25/2515.htm *http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ar15.htm *http://www.destroyers.org/shiplist/ad-ar.htm Amphion-class repair ships Ships built in Tampa, Florida 1945 ships World War II auxiliary ships of the United States Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States {{US-mil-ship-stub