Brontes AGP-17

Brontes

Brontes was one of the Cyclopes.

(AGP-17: dp. 2179; 1. 328'; b. 50'; dr. 11'2"; s. 11.6 k.;
cpl. 119; a. 8 40mm.; cl. Alecto)

Brontes, although reclassified AGP-17, 14 August 1944, was launched 6 February 1945 as LST-1125 by Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, Ill.; sponsored by Mrs. June Elizabeth Reimer; and placed in reduced commission 17 February 1945; placed out of commission 10 March 1945; underwent conversion to a motor torpedo boat tepder; and recommissioned as Bronte8 (AGP-17) 14 August 1945, Lieutenant W. B. Reanden, Jr., In command.

On 26 September 1945 Brontes got underway for New Orleans, where she arrived 3 October. At New Orleans she participated in the Navy Day activities and then remained to service torpedo boats. In December 1945 she sailed to Washington, D. C., to participate in the "parade of torpedo boats" held in conjunction with a Victory Bond drive.

On 20 December 1945, she departed Washington for New York and pre inactivation overhaul. Bronte8 was decommissioned 14 March 1946 and sold 1 April 1946.