M/V Star Arcturus 1

M/V Star Arcturus I

• Built as hull number 176 (MC hull number 19)(MC type T.C2) at Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa. as Mormachawk for MooreMcCormack Lines.
• Equipped with one 2-stroke, 4 cylinder single-acting Doxford Diesel delivering 6.000 i.h.p. and she had a speed at 15,5 knots.   
• Launched 18 July 1939.
• Purchased by the Navy 20 September 1940; converted by Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. and classified as USS ARCTURUS (AK18) and commissioned 26 October 1940.
• She was reclassified AKA-1, 1 February 1943.
• She departed Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. She was decommissioned there 3 April 1946.
• Struck from the Naval Register, 5 juni 1946.
• Sold 24 July 1947 to Compania Naviera Puerta del Sur, Panama owned by Johnson.
• Rebuilded at Lindholmens Shipyard, Gothenburg 1949.
• Sold for scrapping, she arrived Sakaide, Japan 15 August 1971 for dismantling.