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during

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: * , launched 10 December 1943; renamed ''Pacific Bear'' (1947), ''Lanikai'' (1958), ''Pacific Bear'' (1960), ''Panoceanic Faith'' (1961); foundered southwest of

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on 9 October 1967 with the loss of 35 * , launched 14 April 1944; transferred to the

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as USS ''Wrangell'' (AE-12); scrapped in 1983

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