Her keel was laid down as LST-1037 by the
Boston Navy Yard in
Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 July 1944. She was renamed Poseidon and given
hull classification symbolARL-12 on 12 June 1944;
launched on 24 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Nora T. Twomey; and placed in reduced commission on 22 September 1944. Following initial commissioning, Poseidon steamed south to
Baltimore, Maryland, where she decommissioned and completed conversion to a landing craft repair ship.
Commissioned in full 13 February 1945, she completed shakedown in
Chesapeake Bay and, assigned to ServRon 10, sailed for
Ulithi, thence, in early June, to
Okinawa. There, at
Kerama Retto and at
Buckner Bay, she repaired landing and patrol craft until the cessation of hostilities. Ordered back to the
United States after
World War II for inactivation, she
decommissioned on 30 November 1946 and was berthed with the Columbia River Group of the
Pacific Reserve Fleet. She remained a unit of that group until struck from the
Naval Vessel Register on 1 July 1961.
She was sold 3 November 1961 to the Marine Power and Equipment Company of
Seattle, Washington. Her final fate is unknown.
Her keel was laid down as LST-1037 by the
Boston Navy Yard in
Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 July 1944. She was renamed Poseidon and given
hull classification symbolARL-12 on 12 June 1944;
launched on 24 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Nora T. Twomey; and placed in reduced commission on 22 September 1944. Following initial commissioning, Poseidon steamed south to
Baltimore, Maryland, where she decommissioned and completed conversion to a landing craft repair ship.
Commissioned in full 13 February 1945, she completed shakedown in
Chesapeake Bay and, assigned to ServRon 10, sailed for
Ulithi, thence, in early June, to
Okinawa. There, at
Kerama Retto and at
Buckner Bay, she repaired landing and patrol craft until the cessation of hostilities. Ordered back to the
United States after
World War II for inactivation, she
decommissioned on 30 November 1946 and was berthed with the Columbia River Group of the
Pacific Reserve Fleet. She remained a unit of that group until struck from the
Naval Vessel Register on 1 July 1961.
She was sold 3 November 1961 to the Marine Power and Equipment Company of
Seattle, Washington. Her final fate is unknown.