USS Tangier (AV-8)
Tangier in the south Pacific area, July 1944.
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Tangier |
| Builder: | Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California |
| Laid down: | 18 March 1939 |
| Launched: | 15 September 1940 |
| Acquired: | 8 July 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 25 August 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | c. January 1947 |
| Struck: | 1 June 1961 |
| Honors and awards: |
3 Battle Stars |
| Fate: | Sold to Union Minerals & Alloys Corporation, 17 November 1961 |
 United States
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| Name: | SS Detroit |
| Operator: | Sea-Land Service |
| Acquired: | 1962 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1974 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Seaplane tender |
| Displacement: | 11,760 long tons (11,950 t) |
| Length: | 492 ft 1 in (149.99 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
| Draft: | 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) |
| Speed: | 18.4 kn (21.2 mph; 34.1 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,075 officers and men |
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The second USS Tangier (AV-8) was a cargo ship, converted to a seaplane tender in the United States Navy during World War II. Constructed in 1939, the vessel was acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1940. The ship was present during the Attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II. Tangier saw service throughout the Pacific until the end of the war. Following the war, the vessel was placed in reserve until 1961 when the vessel was sold for mercantile use. Renamed Detroit in 1962 and converted to a car carrier, the vessel continued in service until 1974, when the ship was sold for scrap and broken up.
Tangier was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 51) as Sea Arrow on 18 March 1939 at Oakland, California by Moore Dry Dock Company; launched on 15 September 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Joseph R. Sheehan; renamed Tangier (AV-8) on 3 June 1940; acquired by the Navy on 8 July 1940; and commissioned in ordinary on that same day, Commander Clifton A. F. Sprague in command.
Tangier remained at Oakland for over a year, undergoing conversion to a seaplane tender. Finally, on 25 August 1941, she went into full commission and put to sea on her shakedown cruise. At the completion of shakedown training, she was assigned as tender to Patrol Wing 2 (PatWing 2), based in Hawaii. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 3 November and moored abaft the former battleship Utah now serving as an anti-aircraft training ship. There, she spent the last month of peacetime caring for her complement of seaplanes.
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