USS Typhon (ARL-28) was one of 39 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II.

After post-shakedown inspections, the ship departed Norfolk on 22 July; picked up a load of pontoons at Davisville, Rhode Island; and headed, via the Panama Canal, for the west coast.

Putting into San Diego on 18 August, she unloaded her pontoons and, 10 days later, got underway for the Hawaiian Islands, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 7 September.

For almost a year, the ship operated out of Hong Kong and Shanghai, working to support American occupation forces in China.

On 1 July 1960 her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register, and the ship was sold on 23 February 1961 to Al Epstein of New Orleans.