Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Cook Inlet began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36). She was laid down on 23 August 1943 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington, launched on 13 May 1944, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 5 November 1944. She served in the Central Pacific during World War II, including in the Iwo Jima campaign, and on occupation duty in Japan and Korea postwar. She was decommissioned on 31 March 1946 and placed in reserve at Alameda, California.
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