USS Shelikof, a 1,766-ton Barnegat class small seaplane tender, was built at Houghton, Washington, and was commissioned in April 1944. After shakedown training at San Diego she sailed for the Pacific war zone, arriving at Eniwetok in July. There her repair facilities were modified to enhance her ability to repair aircraft radars. In August 1944 she moved to Saipan, where she helped make the former Japanese base capable of supporting U. S. aircraft. After three months of duty transporting spare parts and supplies between Central Pacific bases, Shelikof sailed from Saipan in March 1945 for the Okinawa operation. On arrival she established a base at Kerama Retto for PBM-5 seaplanes, which was used throughout the assault. She remained in the Okinawa area through the end of the war, shifting her seaplane base to Chimu Wan, Okinawa, in July.

After a brief period shuttling between Okinawa and Japan, Shelikof departed for the United States in October 1945. After overhaul at Norfolk between December 1945 and March 1946, she made a series of voyages to the Azores, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad. She arrived in the Canal Zone in June 1946 and operated from there until March 1947, when she sailed to Philadelphia for inactivation. She was decommissioned in June 1947.

Shelikof was recommissioned at Philadelphia in January 1952 and operated along the east coast from her home port at Norfolk for the next two and a half years. She commenced inactivation in July 1954 and was placed out of commission in the Texas Group of the reserve fleet in December 1954. She was sold in December 1960 to a ship operator in Piraeus, Greece, and became the merchant passenger vessel Kypros in 1961. She was renamed Myconos in 1964, Artemis in 1973, Artemis K in 1974, and Golden Princess in 1979. She sank in a storm at Perama, Greece, while laid up in January 1981.