Tucana (AK-88)

	Sister ship USAPRS Thomas F. Farrell, Jr. underway off the East Coast of the United States, 26 August 1944. US National Archives photo # 80-G-420158 RG-80-G, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
History
United States
Ordered	as MV Symmes Potter; N3-M-A1 hull, MC hull 651;
Builder	Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp.
Laid down	24 April 1944
Launched	13 September 1944
Stricken	13 September 1944
Fate	Transferred to the U.S. Army; scrapped in 1968;
General characteristics
Displacement	1,677 t.(lt), 5,202 t.(fl)
Length	269 ft 10 in (82.25 m)
Beam	42 ft 6 in (12.95 m)
Draft	20 ft 9 in (6.32 m)
Propulsion	diesel, single shaft, 1,300shp
Speed	10 kts.
Complement	83
Armament	3 in (76 mm) dual purpose gun mount

Tucana (AK-88) 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.

History
Sister ship USAPRS Thomas F. Farrell, Jr. underway off the East Coast of the United States, 26 August 1944. US National Archives photo # 80-G-420158 RG-80-G, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
United States
Ordered	as MV Symmes Potter N3-M-A1 hull, MC hull 651
Builder	Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp.
Laid down	24 April 1944
Launched	13 September 1944
Stricken	13 September 1944
Fate	Transferred to the U.S. Army scrapped in 1968
General characteristics
Displacement	1,677 t.(lt), 5,202 t.(fl)
Length	269 ft 10 in (82.25 m)
Beam	42 ft 6 in (12.95 m)
Draft	20 ft 9 in (6.32 m)
Propulsion	diesel, single shaft, 1,300shp
Speed	10 kts.
Complement	83
Armament	3 in (76 mm) dual purpose gun mount