Allied Warships

USS Mackinac (AVP 13)

Seaplane tender of the Barnegat class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Seaplane tender
Class	Barnegat
Pennant	AVP 13
Built by	Puget Sound Navy Yard (Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	1 Jul 1939
Laid down	29 May 1940
Launched	15 Nov 1941
Commissioned	24 Jan 1942
End service	Jan 1947
History	Decommissioned in January 1947 Loaned to the United States Coast Guard and commissioned as USCGC Mackinac (WAVP-371) on 19 April 1949 Redesignated high endurance cutter (WHEC-371) on 1 May 1966 Decommissioned on 28 December 1968 and returned to the USN Sunk as a target

Commands listed for USS Mackinac (AVP 13)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Norman Ridgeway Hitchcock, USN	24 Jan 1942	2 Sep 1942 (1)
2	Cdr. Horace Bushnell Butterfield, USN	2 Sep 1942	6 Apr 1943
3	T/Cdr. Paul David Stroop, USN	6 Apr 1943	27 Jan 1944
4	Lt.Cdr. Gerald Ronald Dyson, USN	27 Jan 1944	10 Feb 1945
5	T/Cdr. Paul Ludwig Stahl, USN	10 Feb 1945	10 Jan 1946

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Sources

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