Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Casco began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class small seaplane tender USS Casco (AVP-12). She was built by the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington. She was launched on 15 November 1941 and commissioned into the Navy on 27 December 1941. She operated in the Aleutian Islands and Central Pacific and supported the Okinawa campaign during World War II, operated in the Philippine Islands after the war, and was decommissioned on 10 April 1947.
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