USS Helios
ARB-12
1945
(SeaVee SV-545e)
- Class: LST - 12 battle damage repair ships of 1945
- Displacement: 1,780 tons
- Dimensions: 328 x 50 x 11 ft.
- Machinery: 2 GM 12-567 diesels, twin shafts, S.H.P. 1,700 = 12 knots
- Armament: 8-40 mm (2x4), 8-20mm (8x1) A.A. guns
- Complement: 260
- Builder: Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, IL
- Keel Laid: 23 Nov 1944
- Launched: 14 Feb 1945
- Commissioned: 26 Feb 1945
- Decommissioned: 3 Dec 1946
- Notes: Commissioned as USS LST-1127. Decommissioned 16 Mar 1945 for conversion to a Battle Damage Repair Ship at Maryland Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, MD. Recommissioned as USS Helios 23 Jul 1945. Laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet from 1946 until she was transferred to Brazil, 19 Jan 1962, and renamed Belmonte. Sold outright to Brazil 1 Dec 1977, and remained in service until decommissioned by the Brazilian Navy, 7 Jun 1997.
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