Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Half Moon began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender USS Half Moon (AVP-26). She was laid down on 10 March 1942 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington, launched on 12 July 1942, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 15 June 1943. She served in the New Guinea campaign and Philippines campaign during World War II, and at Okinawa and in the Philippines postwar. She was decommissioned on 4 September 1946 and placed in reserve.
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