USS Antigone (AGP-16)

USS Antigone was a Portunus-class Motor Torpedo Boat Tender in service with the United States Navy during World War II.

Authorized originally as LST-773, She was reclassified Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, and laid down the next day at Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Seneca, IL.

On 27 October 1944, she was launched, and put into reduced commission for conversion to a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender.

On 5 December 1944, she was decommissioned for the conversion at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD.

After serving in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater for a year, Antigone was decommissioned on 27 May 1946, at San Francisco.