Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Bering Strait began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender USS Bering Strait (AVP-34). She was laid down on 7 June 1943 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington, launched on 15 January 1944, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 19 July 1944. She served in the Central Pacific during World War II, including in the Okinawa campaign, and on occupation duty in Japan postwar. She was decommissioned on 21 June 1946 and placed in reserve at Alameda, California.
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