USS Euryale

USS Euryale (AS-22) At Sasebo, Japan, in November 1945. She has three large Japanese submarines alongside. They are (from inboard to outboard): I-401, I-14 and I-400.
History
United States
Name	Hawaiian Merchant USS Euryale (AS-22)
Namesake	Euryale
Builder	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Launched	12 April 1941[1]
Sponsored by	Mrs. Richard A. Cooke[1]
Acquired	purchased by Navy 15 April 1943[2]
Commissioned	2 December 1943[3]
Decommissioned	7 October 1946[3]
Fate	Sold for scrap 9 August 1972
Notes	United States Official number: 240536[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	Euryale-class submarine tender
Tonnage	7,775 GRT 12,430 DWT[2]
Displacement	7,600 tons[3]
Length	492 ft 6 in (150.11 m)[3]
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)[3]
Draft	21 ft (6.4 m)[3]
Speed	17 knots[3]
Complement	Matson: 43[1] Navy: 1,403[3]
Armament	1 x 5 in (130 mm), 4 x 3 in (76 mm)[3]

USS Euryale (AS-22) was built as the Hawaiian Merchant by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Kearny, New Jersey for the Matson Navigation Company.^[1][2] Hawaiian Merchant was launched 12 April 1941, minutes after sister ship Hawaiian Shipper, and was completed April 1941.^[1] Matson intended the ship to join Hawaiian Planter and Hawaiian Shipper in the U.S. Pacific Coast—Australia route.^[4] The ship was under United States Army Transportation Corps charter when the United States went to war and came under the control of the War Shipping Administration which allocated the ship to the Army's continued charter until the ship was purchased 15 April 1943 by the United States Navy and commissioned 2 December 1943 as USS Euryale (AS-22), serving as a submarine tender through the war. Euryale was decommissioned 7 October 1946, going into reserve until 9 August 1972 when she was delivered to the Maritime Administration with immediate sale to American Ship Dismantler, Inc. for disposal.