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Tucana (AK-88)
''Tucana'' (AK-88)〔Only USS ''Enceladus'' (AK-80) of the ten ships of the ''Enceladus'' class, composed of Maritime Commission N3-M-A1 type small cargo vessels, saw significant naval service. Of the other nine, excpting USS ''Hydra'' (AK-82), all were transferred within months or days of shipyard delivery to Navy to the Army. ''Hydra'' was transferred to Army shortly after commissioning and trials. Navy had assumed the administration of contracts for these ships from the Maritime Commission on 1 January 1943 during or before construction and thus most were only administratively Navy, including names and numbers, during construction.〕 was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation. She was transferred upon launching on 13 September 1944 to the U.S. Army as the U.S. Army Engineer Port Repair ship ''Arthur C. Ely''.
== Service career ==
''AK-88'' was originally authorized under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 651) and assigned the name ''MV Symmes Potter''. The name ''Tucana'' was assigned to her by the Navy on 30 October 1942; and, on 1 January 1943, her contract was transferred from the Maritime Commission to the supervision of the Navy. ''AK-88'' to become an ''Enceladus''-class cargo ship. The ship was laid down on 24 April 1944 at Camden, New Jersey, by the Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 13 September 1944; and sponsored by Mrs. Patrick J. Cushing. On that same day, she was reassigned and delivered to the Army, and her name was struck from the Navy list.〔
She was converted by the U.S. Army to serve as the U.S. Army Engineer Port Repair ship ''Arthur C. Ely''.〔 The ship was not among the converted vessels first deployed overseas in the last half of 1944.
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