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AGP-12 Acontius

Acontius Class Motor Torpedo Boat Tender: : Laid down, as Cape Carthage, a Maritime Commission type (C1-A) hull under a Maritime Commission contract, at Pusey and Jones Corp., Wilmington, DE.; Launched, 12 October 1943; Acquired by the Navy, 22 December 1943; Commission USS Acontius (AGP-12), 23 June 1944; Decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register, and transferred to the Maritime Commission, 22 March 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; Final Disposition, fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 5,236t.(lt) 11,000 t.(fl); Length 413'; Beam 60'; Draft 22' 6"; Speed 14kts; Complement 289; Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four twin 40mm gun mounts, 12 single 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion, geared turbine engine, single propeller, 4,000shp.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	42k	Acontius (AGP-12) underway, date and place unknown.		Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
	77k	Acontius (AGP-12) underway off the eastern seaboard, 12 August 1944, in Measure 31, design 2F camouflage (dull black, ocean green and Navy green). US National Archives photo # 80-G-453343, a US Navy photo, now in the collections of the US National Archives.		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.

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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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