Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Coos Bay began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender USS Coos Bay (AVP-25). She was laid down on 15 August 1941 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington, launched on 15 May 1942, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 15 May 1943. She served in the Central Pacific and Southwest Pacific during World War II, and on occupation duty in Japan postwar. She was decommissioned on 30 April 1946 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Orange, Texas.
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