USS Anthedon (AS-24)

USS Anthedon (AS-24,) moored pierside at the US Submarine Base, Fremantle, Australia, while refitting Pacific Fleet submarines, 26 January 1945.
History
United States
Name:	Anthedon
Namesake:	Anthedon
Ordered:	as type (C3-S-A2) hull, MC hull 858
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down:	6 May 1943
Launched:	15 October 1943
Commissioned:	17 December 1943 (reduced commission)
Decommissioned:	30 December 1943
Commissioned:	15 September 1944 (full commission)
Decommissioned:	21 September 1946
Struck:	c.1968–1969
Identification:	Hull symbol: AS-24 Code letters: NUSP
Fate:	Sold to Turkey, 7 February 1969
Turkey
Name:	Donatan
Acquired:	7 February 1969
Identification:	A-583
Fate:	Scrapped, date unknown
General characteristics
Class and type:	Aegir-class submarine tender
Displacement:	16,500 long tons (16,800 t) (full)
Length:	492 ft 6 in (150.11 m)
Beam:	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
Draft:	27 ft (8.2 m)
Installed power:	2 × Foster–Wheeler D-type 465 psi (3,210 kPa) 765 °F (407 °C) steam boilers 8,500 shp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × General Electric steam turbine General Electric double reduction main gears 1 × Propellor
Speed:	18.4 kn (34.1 km/h; 21.2 mph)
Complement:	82 Officers 1,378 Enlisted
Armament:	1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber dual purpose gun 4 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) mounts 20 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon cannons AA

USS Anthedon (AS-24) was an Aegir-class submarine tender of the United States Navy during World War II.

The ship was laid down on 6 May 1943 under a Maritime Commission, type (C3-S-A2) hull, under contract (MC hull 858) at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. It was launched on 15 October 1943, and sponsored by Mrs. William M. Colmer. The ship was acquired by the US Navy and commissioned on 17 December 1943. It was turned over to the Todd Shipbuilding Co. for conversion and decommissioned on 30 December 1943, and then recommissioned on 15 September 1944, with Commander Richard E. Hawes in command.

Following her commissioning, the submarine tender got underway for Brooklyn, New York, to load provisions and ammunition at the New York Navy Yard and then traveled to New London, Connecticut, to take on spare parts for submarines and to conduct tests and drills. She departed New London on 11 October and set a course for Australia. The ship transited the Panama Canal on 17 October and arrived at Fremantle submarine base|, Western Australia on 17 November.

Anthedon spent three months at that port carrying out refits and voyage repairs on submarines returning from war patrols. The tender departed Fremantle on 12 February 1945; and made stops at Brisbane, Australia, and Hollandia, New Guinea, to pick up building material. She reached Subic Bay, Philippines, on 13 March, and remained there during the rest of the war, servicing numerous submarines as well as the destroyer escorts operating from Subic Bay.