USS Telamon (ARB-8) was planned as a United States Navy LST-542-class tank landing ship but was converted as one of twelve Aristaeus-class battle damage repair ships built for the Navy during World War II.

Originally designated LST-956, the ship was redesignated ARB-8 and named Telamon on 28 April 1944, before the construction began.

She was laid down on 5 December 1944, at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; launched on 10 January 1945; and commissioned on 5 February 1945.

After steaming to Baltimore, she was decommissioned, underwent conversion at Maryland Drydock Company, and was recommissioned on 1 June 1945.

[3] Telamon was sold for scrapping 1 March 1974, by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.