The USS Alecto (AGP-14) was a Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tender constructed for the United States Navy during the final stages of World War II. Originally ordered as an LST-542-class tank landing ship under the name USS LST-977, she was renamed and redesignated as Alecto on 12 June 1944. The vessel was laid down on 12 December 1944 at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in Hingham, Massachusetts, and was launched on 15 January 1945. Following her construction, she was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 8 February 1945. She was quickly decommissioned in Baltimore on 23 February 1945 for conversion by the Maryland Drydock Co. into a motor torpedo boat tender, and was recommissioned on 28 July 1945. Her primary role was to provide maintenance and support to motor torpedo boats, vital assets for naval operations during and immediately after World War II. Alecto embarked on her shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay beginning 6 August 1945, and by 2 September, she was assigned to the Service Forces of the Atlantic Fleet. After a period of training and upkeep in Norfolk, Virginia, she moved to Albany, New York, arriving there on 16 October. She then moored at the Army Supply Depot at Albany, where she serviced motor torpedo boats, and on 10 November, she relocated to Melville, Rhode Island, to conduct repair work for Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 4 (MTBRon 4). In early 1946, she undertook voyages transporting equipment from Melville to Solomons Island, Maryland, supporting the squadron’s operations. She remained stationed at Solomons Island from March through May before sailing to Charleston, South Carolina, in June. The vessel was decommissioned there on 28 June 1946, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 28 June 1947. Subsequently, she was transferred to Turkey on 10 May 1948, where she was renamed Onaran (A581). The USS Alecto’s service reflects her role in supporting naval operations during the closing months of World War II and the immediate postwar period.

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