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'''''Tucana'' (AK-88)'''<ref group=Note>Only [[USS Enceladus (AK-80)|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)|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.</ref> was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq63-1.htm |title=Ship Naming in the United States Navy |author=Naval History & Heritage Command |publisher=Naval History & Heritage Command |access-date=17 February 2012}}</ref> She was transferred upon launching on 13 September 1944 to the [[U.S. Army]]<ref Name=DANFS>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t9/tucana.htm |title=Tucana |author=Naval History & Heritage Command |work=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |publisher=Naval History & Heritage Command |access-date=17 February 2012}}</ref> as the [[U.S. Army Engineer Port Repair ship]] ''Arthur C. Ely''.<ref Name=grover>{{cite book |last= Grover |first= David |title= [[U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II]] |publisher= [[Naval Institute Press]] |year= 1987 |pages=133–137 |isbn= 0-87021-766-6}}</ref>
'''''Tucana'' (AK-88)''' was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation.<ref>http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq63-1.htm | Navy History & Heritage Command - Ship Naming in the United States Navy</ref>. She was transferred upon launching on 13 September 1944 to the [[U.S. Army]] as the [[U.S. Army 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|''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]].<ref She was delivered to the U.S. Army and commissioned USAT ''Arthur C. Ely'', a Port RehabilitationName=DANFS vessel/>
 
She was converted by the U.S. Army to serve as the U.S. Army Engineer Port Repair ship ''Arthur C. Ely''.<ref Name=grover /> The ship was not among the converted vessels first deployed overseas in the last half of 1944.<ref Name=prp>{{cite book |title=United States Army in World War II - The Corps of Engineers: Troops and Equipment - Chapter XVII - Preparing to Reconstruct Ports |last=Coll |first=Blanche D. |author2=Jean E. Keith |author3=Herbert H. Rosenthal |year=1958 |publisher=U.S. Army Center Of Military History |pages=391–416 |url=http://140.194.76.129/publications/misc/un21/toc.htm |access-date=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424224234/http://140.194.76.129/publications/misc/un21/toc.htm |archive-date=24 April 2012 }}</ref>
 
== Footnotes ==
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== References ==
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*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t9/tucana.htm}}
 
== External links ==
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/13/130088.htm NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - AK-88 Tucana - Arthur C. Ely]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090723125459/http://140.194.76.129/publications/misc/un21/c-17.pdf United States Army in World War II - The Corps of Engineers: Troops and Equipment - Chapter XVII - Preparing to Reconstruct Ports]
 
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