Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Mackinac began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender USS Mackinac (AVP-13). She was laid down on 29 May 1940 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington, launched on 15 November 1941, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 24 January 1942. She operated in the Pacific during World War II, seeing action in the Solomon Islands, in the Marshall Islands, in the Palau Islands, and at Okinawa . She was decommissioned in January 1947 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Orange, Texas.
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