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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Amphion |
| Namesake | Amphion |
| Builder | Tampa Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down | 20 September 1944 |
| Launched | 15 May 1945 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Howard D. Orem |
| Commissioned | 30 January 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 2 October 1971 |
| Stricken | 1 March 1977 |
| Identification | AR-13 |
| Fate | transferred to Iran, 2 October 1971 |
 Iran | |
| Name | IIS Chah Bahar |
| Namesake | Chabahar |
| Acquired | 2 October 1971; purchased outright, 1 March 1977 |
| Fate | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Amphion-class repair ship |
| Displacement | 17,600 long tons |
| Length | 492 ft (150 m) |
| Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
| Draft | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement | 921 |
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USS Amphion (AR-13) was the lead ship of her class of repair ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. The second U.S. Navy vessel to be named Amphion, she was not commissioned until January 1946, five months after the end of the war. She was decommissioned in September 1971 and transferred to the Imperial Iranian Navy as IIS Chahbahan. She was purchased outright by Iran in March 1977. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution she remained in service with the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy through at least 1985. Her fate beyond that date is not reported in secondary sources.