Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Barataria began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender USS Barataria (AVP-33). She was laid down on 19 April 1943 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington, launched on 2 October 1943, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 13 August 1944. She operated in the Central Pacific and the Philippines during World War II, and at Okinawa, in China, and in Korea after the war ended. She was decommissioned on 24 July 1946 and placed in reserve at Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California.
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