Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Absecon began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class catapult training ship USS Absecon (AVP-23). She was laid down on 23 July 1941 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington as a Barnegat-class seaplane tender, but was converted during construction for use in catapult training. She was launched on 8 March 1942 and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 28 January 1943. She spent her Navy career in Florida waters training battleship and cruiser floatplane pilots, as well as serving as a mobile target for Navy torpedo planes using exercise torpedoes. She was decommissioned on 19 March 1947 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Orange, Texas.
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