The SS Arcadia Victory was a Victory ship built during World War II for cargo shipping. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on 1 July 1944 and completed on 22 September 1944. The ship's United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2- S- AP3, hull number 41. In 1961 she was rebuilt as a Denebola-class stores ship and renamed USNS Asterion (T-AF-63). Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas.