USS Tantalus (ARL-27) Liquidation Commission for further transfer to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration for disposal. "Tantalus" was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 7 February 1947. Her final fate is unknown. USS Tantalus (ARL-27) USS "Tantalus" (ARL-27) was one of 39 "Achelous"-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Tantalus (a legendary king of Lydia condemned to stand in a pool of water up to his chin and beneath fruit-laden boughs only to have the water or fruit recede at each attempt to drink or eat), she was the only
Katie King (spirit) not wanted to photograph the real Katie King, since bright light would have ruined the materialization. Once involved, Eliza White first extorted money from the Holmeses, and then sold the story to the press. (Doyle 1926: volume 1, 269-277). Katie King (spirit) Katie King was the name given by Spiritualists in the 1870s to what they believed to be a materialized spirit. The question of whether the spirit was real or a fraud was a notable public controversy of the mid-1870s. The spirit was said to have appeared first between 1871 and 1874 in séances conducted by Florence Cook in