Construction and U.S. Navy Service
Yakutat began as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender, USS Yakutat (AVP-32). She was laid down on 1 April 1942 by Associated Shipbuilders, Inc. at Seattle, Washington, launched on 2 July 1943, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 31 March 1944. She served in the Central Pacific during World War II and on occupation duty in Japan postwar. She was decommissioned on 29 July 1946 and placed in reserve at Alameda, California.
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