USS Cook Inlet, a 1,766-ton Barnegat class small seaplane tender, was built at Houghton, Washington, and was commissioned in November 1944. She left San Diego for the Central Pacific in January 1945 and, after a brief period tending seaplanes in Hawaii, arrived at Saipan in February. In March, Cook Inlet served as an air-sea rescue ship during the invasion of Iwo Jima and rescued 27 survivors of downed bombers.
Cook Inlet remained on duty off Iwo Jima until November 1945, when she moved to Jinsen (Inchon), Korea, to serve as station tender. She returned to San Francisco for inactivation in January 1946. Cook Inlet was placed "in commission in reserve" in June 1946 and was placed out of commission in 1947.
In September 1948 Cook Inlet was loaned to the Coast Guard as the cutter Cook Inlet (WAVP-384, later WHEC-384). She served out of Portland, Maine, primarily on weather station duty, for most of her Coast Guard career. She was transferred to South Vietnam as Tran Quoc Toan in December 1971. After the fall of South Vietnam, she was transferred to the Philippines in April 1976 as a source of spare parts for other ex-U. S. ships.
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Photo #: 19-N-79525 USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) Photographed off Houghton, Washington, on 3 November 1944, two days before commissioning. She has a main armament of 1-5"/38 gun and carries boats on her otherwise clear fantail. Note her camouflage. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 620 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-79526 USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) Photographed off Houghton, Washington, on 3 November 1944, two days before commissioning. Note her camouflage. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-68235 USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) Being christened by Mrs. H. K. Stubbs during launching ceremonies on 13 May 1944. The ship was built by the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-68236 USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) Being launched at the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington, on 13 May 1944. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 119KB; 740 x 620 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Page made 11 May 2001