High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Akutan (AE-13) was laid down on 20 June 1944 at Tampa, Fla., by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 17 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Rosswell B. Daggett, the wife of Capt. Daggett, USN, the supervisor of shipbuilding at Tampa; and commissioned on 15 February 1945, Comdr. R.C. Brown in command. She is named after Akutan Island, an active volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.