USS Agenor

	USS Agenor in 1945
History
United States
Name	Agenor
Namesake	Agenor
Builder	Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond
Yard number	45
Laid down	24 January 1943
Launched	3 April 1943
Commissioned	20 August 1943
Decommissioned	15 November 1946
Reclassified	ARL-3, 13 January 1943
Stricken	26 March 1951
Identification	Callsign: NJVB; ; Hull number: LST-490;
Honors and; awards	See Awards
Fate	Transferred to France, 2 March 1951
France
Name	Vulcain
Namesake	Vulcain
Acquired	2 March 1951
Stricken	26 March 1951
Identification	Hull number: A656
Fate	Transferred to the Republic of China, 15 September 1957
Republic of China
Name	Song Shan; (嵩山);
Namesake	Song Shan
Acquired	30 September 1957
Commissioned	1 November 1957
Renamed	Wu Tai, 1 August 1968; (五台);
Namesake	Wu Tai
Decommissioned	April 1983
Reclassified	ARL-236; AP-520, 1968;
Identification	Hull number: ARL-336
General characteristics
Class and type	Achelous-class repair ship
Displacement	3,900 long tons (4,000 t) (light) ; 4,100 long tons (4,200 t) (full load);
Length	328 ft (100 m)
Beam	50 ft (15 m)
Draft	11 ft 2 in (3.40 m)
Installed power	2 × Electro-Motive Diesel 12-567A diesel engines; 1,800 shp (1,300 kW);
Propulsion	1 × Falk main reduction gears; 2 × Propellers;
Speed	12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	22 officers, 233 enlisted men
Armament	1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50 caliber dual-purpose gun 2 × quad 40 millimetres (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) guns 6 × twin 20 millimetres (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannons
Service record
Operations:	Capture and occupation of Saipan (25 June–21 July 1944); Capture and occupation of Guam (1–15 August 1944); Tinian Capture and occupation (24–31 July 1944); Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima (19 February–16 March 1945);
Awards:	American Campaign Medal; Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal;

USS Agenor (ARL-3) was one of 39 Achelous-class repair ship landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Agenor (in history and Greek mythology, a king of Tyre), she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

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