USS Proteus (AS-19)
USS Proteus (AS-19) in 1980
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| Namesake: | Proteus |
| Builder: | Moore Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 15 September 1941 |
| Launched: | 12 November 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 31 January 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 September 1947 |
| Recommissioned: | 8 July 1960 |
| Decommissioned: | September 1992 |
| Recommissioned: | 1994, reclassified IX-518 |
| Decommissioned: | September 1999 |
| Struck: | 13 March 2001 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 2007 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | Fulton-class submarine tender |
| Displacement: | 9,734 long tons (9,890 t) |
| Length: | 529 ft 6 in (161.39 m) |
| Beam: | 73 ft 4 in (22.35 m) |
| Propulsion: | diesel-electric |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,487 |
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The third USS Proteus (AS-19) was a Fulton-class submarine tender in the United States Navy.
Proteus was laid down by the Moore Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California, 15 September 1941; launched 12 November 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Charles M. Cooke, Jr.; and commissioned 31 January 1944, Capt. Robert W. Berry in command.
After shakedown off San Diego, she stood out of San Francisco 19 March for Midway to tend submarines of Submarine Squadron 20. She arrived 3 May, and operating there until 1 December completed 51 voyage repairs and 14 refits for submarines. She returned to Pearl Harbor 4 December, and on 5 February got underway for Guam where she completed 4 voyage repairs and 24 refits by 7 August.
Assigned to occupation duty after the end of the war, Proteus rendezvoused with units of the 3rd Fleet and became the flagship of a 26-ship support group which steamed off the coast of Honshū until 26 August. On the 28th she anchored in Sagami Wan to begin supporting Submarine Squadron 20 as it demilitarized surrendered Japanese submarines, human torpedoes, torpedo carrying boats, and suicide boats at Yokosuka and other locations in the Sagami Wan-Tokyo Bay areas. Future actors Tony Curtis – whose birth name was Bernard Schwartz – and Larry Storch were aboard Proteus at Tokyo Bay in August–September 1945 – and watched much of the formal surrender activities aboard USS Missouri from Proteus's signal bridge.
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