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LST-135 / AGP-10 Orestes

Varuna Class Motor Torpedo Boat Tender: Laid down as LST-135, 8 July 1943, at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca IL.; Redesignated a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, 3 November 1943; Launched 16 November 1943; Converted at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD; Commissioned USS Orestes (AGP-10), 25 April 1944; Decommissioned, 29 April 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1947; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 March 1948, sold for scrapping, Walter W Johnson Co., San Francisco, CA. Orestes received two battle stares for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,780 t.(fl), 3,960 t.(fl); Length 328'; Beam 50'; Draft 11' 2"; Speed 11.6k; Complement 341; Armament; one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, four twin 40mm gun mounts, twelve 30mm guns; Propulsion, two General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders.

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