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{{short description|Tender of the United States Navy}}

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|Ship name=USS ''Cook Inlet''
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|Ship name=USCGC ''Cook Inlet'' (WAVP-384)
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|Ship acquired=*Loaned by [[United States Navy]] to Coast Guard 20 September 1948
*Transferred permanently from Navy to Coast Guard 26 September 1966
|Ship commissioned=15 January 1949
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|Ship name=RVNS ''Trần Quốc Toản'' (HQ-06)
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'''USS ''Cook Inlet'' (AVP-36)''' was a [[United States Navy]] [[Barnegat class small seaplane tender|''Barnegat''-class]] small [[seaplane tender]] in commission from 1944 to 1946. She tended [[seaplanes]] during [[World War II]] in the [[Pacific War|Pacific]] and earned one [[battle star]] for her service. After the war, she was transferred to the [[United States Coast Guard]], and was in commission as the [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] '''USCGC ''Cook Inlet'' (WAVP-384)''', later '''WHEC-384''', from 1949 to 1971. She saw service in the [[Vietnam War]] during her Coast Guard career, receiving two [[campaign star]]s for her operations during the conflict. Transferred to [[South Vietnam]] in 1971, she operated as the [[Republic of Vietnam Navy]] [[frigate]] '''RVNS ''Trần Quốc Toản'' (HQ-06)''' until South Vietnam's collapse in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. She fled to the [[Philippines]] and in 1976 was transferred to the [[Philippine Navy]], which never commissioned her, instead using her as a source of spare parts for her [[sister ship]]s, the {{sclass|Andrés Bonifacio|frigate|1}}s, before discarding her in 1982.

==Construction and commissioning==
{{stack|[[Image:USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) launch.jpg|thumb|USS ''Cook Inlet'' (AVP-36) is launched at [[Lake Washington Shipyard]] at [[Houghton, Washington]], on 13 May 1944.]]}}
''Cook Inlet'' (AVP-36) was [[Keel-laying|laid down]] on 23 August 1943 at [[Lake Washington Shipyard]] at [[Houghton, Washington]]. She was [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 13 May 1944, sponsored by Mrs. H. K. Stubbs, wife of [[Captain (naval)|Captain]] Stubbs, and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 5 November 1944.

== United States Navy service ==

===  World War II ===

''Cook Inlet'' departed [[San Diego]], [[California]], on January 15, 1945 and arrived at [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]], on January 21, 1945. She tended [[seaplane]]s at [[Hilo, Hawaii|Hilo]], Hawaii, from January 25, 1945 to January 31, 1945.

''Cook Inlet'' arrived off [[Saipan]] on  February 26, 1945 to serve with the escort and patrol group based there, and from  March 2, 1945 to  March 14, 1945 was on an [[air-sea rescue]] station during the [[Battle of Iwo Jima|invasion]] of [[Iwo Jima]]. ''Cook Inlet'' rescued 27 survivors of downed [[bomber]]s. She was still on duty at Iwo Jima when hostilities with [[Japan]] ended on  August 15, 1945, bringing [[World War II]] to a close.

====Honors and awards====
''Cook Inlet'' received one [[battle star]] for [[World War II]] service.

===Post-World War II ===

''Cook Inlet'' remained on duty off Iwo Jima until 29 November 1945, when she sailed to [[Jinsen]], [[Korea]], for duty as station tender. She then returned to the [[United States]], calling at Iwo Jima and Pearl Harbor before reaching [[San Francisco]], California, on 22 January 1946.

===Decommissioning===

''Cook Inlet'' was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] and placed in reserve in the [[Pacific Reserve Fleet]] on 31 March 1946.

== United States Coast Guard service ==
[[Image:USCGC Cook Inlet (WHEC-384).jpg|thumb|200px|left|USCGC ''Cook Inlet'' (WAVP-384), later WHEC-384, some time prior to the [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]]'s 1967 adoption of the
"[[United States Coast Guard#Service Mark ("Racing Stripe")|racing stripe]]" markings on its ships.]]''Barnegat''-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast Guard viewed them as ideal for [[Ocean Weather Station|ocean station]] duty, in which they would perform weather reporting and [[search and rescue]] tasks, once they were modified by having a [[balloon]] shelter added aft and having [[oceanography|oceanographic]] equipment, an oceanographic [[winch]], and a [[hydrography|hydrographic]] winch installed. After World War II, the U.S. Navy transferred 18 of the ships to the Coast Guard, in which they were known as the [[Casco-class cutter|''Casco''-class cutters]].

The Navy loaned ''Cook Inlet'' to the Coast Guard on 20 September 1948. After undergoing conversion for Coast Guard use, she was commissioned into the Coast Guard on 15 January 1949 as '''USCGC ''Cook Inlet'' (WAVP-384)'''.

===Service history===

====North Atlantic====
''Cook Inlet''{{'}}s [[home port]] was [[Portland, Maine|Portland]], [[Maine]], throughout her Coast Guard career of almost 23 years. She served in the [[North Atlantic Ocean]], where her primary duty was to serve on [[Ocean weather station|ocean stations]] to gather [[Meteorology|meteorological]] data. While on duty in one of these stations, she was required to patrol a 210-square-mile (544-square-kilometer) area for three weeks at a time, leaving the area only when physically relieved by another Coast Guard cutter or in the case of a dire emergency. While on station, she acted as an aircraft check point at the [[point of no return]], a relay point for messages from ships and aircraft, a source of the latest weather information for passing aircraft, as a floating [[Oceanography|oceanographic]] laboratory, and as a [[Search and rescue|search-and-rescue]] ship for downed aircraft and vessels in distress, and she engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations.

On 12 October 1953, ''Cook Inlet'' rendezvoused with the Coast Guard cutter [[USCGC Chambers (WDE-491)|USCGC ''Chambers'' (WDE-491)]] in the Atlantic to take a medical patient from ''Chambers'' which ''Chambers'' had evacuated the previous day from the [[merchant ship]] ''Neva West''. She then transported that patient to medical facilities ashore.

''Cook Inlet'' took part in the [[United States Coast Guard Academy]] [[cadet]] cruise of August 1965.

On 28 January 1966, ''Cook Inlet'' rescued survivors in of a swamped pleasure craft. Between 3 and 8 February 1966, she escorted the distressed [[Liberia]]n merchant vessel ''Arion'' to [[Bermuda]]. On 8 April 1966, she assisted the burning [[Norway|Norwegian]] passenger-freighter ''Viking Princess'', sending a fire and rescue party aboard ''Viking Princess'' to fight her fires; rushing from [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo Bay]], [[Cuba]], in a three-hour voyage, the U.S. Navy [[frigate]] {{USS|Wilkinson|DL-5}} also assisted ''Viking Princess'', taking 13 survivors of the ship aboard from the [[Republic of China]] merchant ship ''Chungking Victory'' and transporting them to Guantanamo Bay.
In 1969, "Cook Inlet" transported Jacques Piccard and other scientific personnel to Portland after their research sub, the "Ben Franklin" surfaced after its month long, 1400 mile journey, drifting in the Gulf stream.

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''Cook Inlet'' was reclassified as a [[high endurance cutter]] and re-designated '''WHEC-384''' on 1 May 1966. Her loan period from the Navy came to an end on 26 September 1966, when she was transferred permanently from the Navy to the Coast Guard.

On 8 January 1968, ''Cook Inlet'' evacuated a crewman in medical distress from the [[Sweden|Swedish]] merchant ship ''California''.

====Vietnam War====
''Cook Inlet'' was assigned to Coast Guard Squadron Three in [[South Vietnam]] on 2 July 1971. Coast Guard Squadron Three was tasked to operate in conjunction with U.S. Navy forces in [[Operation Market Time]], the interdiction of [[North Vietnam]]ese arms and munitions traffic along the coastline of [[South Vietnam]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. The squadron's other Vietnam War duties included fire support for ground forces, resupplying Coast Guard and Navy [[patrol boat]]s, and search-and-rescue operations. ''Cook Inlet'' served in this capacity until 21 December 1971.

=====Honors and awards=====
''Cook Inlet'' earned two [[campaign star]]s for her Vietnam War service, for:

*Consolidation I 16 July 1971 – 9 August 1971, 27 August 1971 – 15 September 1971, 1 October 1971 – 24 October 1971, and 22 November 1971 – 30 November 1971
*Consolidation II 1 December 1971 – 15 December 1971

===Decommissioning===
The Coast Guard decommissioned ''Cook Inlet''  in South Vietnam on 21 December 1971, the day her Vietnam War tour ended.

==Republic of Vietnam Navy service==
[[File:TuanDuongHam-HQVN.jpg|thumb|200px|left|RVNS ''Trần Quốc Toản'' (HQ-06) pierside at center, with her sister ships {{ship|RVNS|Trần Quang Khải|HQ-02}} (left) and {{ship|RVNS|Trần Bình Trọng|HQ-05}} (right).]]
On 21 December 1971 &ndash; the day the Coast Guard decommissioned her &ndash; ''Cook Inlet'' was transferred to South Vietnam, which commissioned her into the [[Republic of Vietnam Navy]] as the [[frigate]] '''RVNS ''Trần Quốc Toản'' (HQ-06)'''.<ref>Per ''Janes's Fighting Ships 1973-1974'', p. 592, "HQ" is an abbreviation for "Hai Quan", [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] for "Navy", used for all [[Republic of Vietnam Navy]] ships.</ref> By mid-1972, six other former ''Casco''-class cutters &ndash; known in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as the {{sclass|Trần Quang Khải|frigate}}s &ndash; also were in South Vietnamese service. They were the largest warships in the South Vietnamese inventory, and their [[5"/38 caliber gun|5-inch (127-millimeter) guns]] were South Vietnam's largest naval guns. ''Trần Quốc Toản'' and her sisters fought alongside U.S. Navy ships during the final years of the Vietnam War, patrolling the South Vietnamese coast and providing gunfire support to South Vietnamese forces ashore.

When South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in late April 1975, ''Trần Quốc Toản'' became a ship without a country. She fled to [[Subic Bay]] in the [[Philippines]], packed with South Vietnamese [[refugee]]s. On 22 and 23 May 1975, a U.S. Coast Guard team inspected ''Trần Quốc Toản'' and five of her sister ships, which also had fled to the Philippines in April 1975. One of the inspectors noted: "These vessels brought in several hundred refugees and are generally rat-infested. They are in a filthy, deplorable condition. Below decks generally would compare with a garbage scow."<ref>This quote, from the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/McCulloch_1946.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924162427/http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/McCulloch_1946.pdf |date=24 September 2008 }}, is unattributed.</ref>

==Philippine Navy==
The [[Republic of the Philippines]] took custody of ''Trần Quốc Toản'' after her arrival in 1975, and the United States formally transferred her to the Philippines on 5 April 1976. She did not enter [[Philippine Navy]] service; instead she and her sister ship {{ship|RVNS|Trần Nhật Duật|HQ-03}} were cannibalized for spare parts to allow the Philippines to keep four other sister ships &ndash; all former South Vietnamese ships known in the Philippine Navy as the {{sclass|Andrés Bonifacio|frigate}}s &ndash; in commission in the Philippine Navy.<ref name="navsource" />

The former ''Trần Quốc Toản'' was discarded in 1982 and probably scrapped.<ref>United States Coast Guard Historian's Office at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/CookInlet1949.asp {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131103006/http://uscg.mil/history/webcutters/CookInlet1949.asp |date=31 January 2009 }}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist}}
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c13/cook_inlet.htm}} for USS ''Cook Inlet'' (AVP-36)
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w8/wilkinson.htm}} for USS ''Wilkinson'' (DL-5)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20010821201053/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/avp36.htm Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS ''Cook Inlet'' (AVP-36), 1944-1948]
*[http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/CookInlet1949.asp United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: ''Cook Inlet'', 1949 WHEC-384 Radio call sign: NYLW]
*[http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Mackinac_1949.pdf United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: ''Mackinac'', 1949 WHEC-371]
*[http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Chambers.asp USS Chambers (DE-391) & USCGC Chambers (WDE-491)]
*[http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Gresham_1946.pdf United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: ''Gresham'', 1947 AGP-9; AVP-57; WAVP / WHEC / WAGW-387 ex-USS Willoughby Radio call sign: NODB]
*[http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/McCulloch_1946.pdf United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: ''McCulloch'', 1946 WAVP / WHEC-386]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150125075925/http://vnafmamn.com/VNNavy_inventory.html The Inventory of VNN's Battle Ships Part 1]}}
*Chesneau, Roger. ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922&ndash;1946''. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1980. {{ISBN|0-8317-0303-2}}.
*Gardiner, Robert. ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1982, Part I: The Western Powers''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983. {{ISBN|0-87021-918-9}}.
* Gray, Randal, Ed. ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1982 Part II: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Aligned Nations''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983. {{ISBN|0-87021-919-7}}.
* Moore, John, Captain, RN, FRGS, Ed. ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1973-1974''. London: Jane's Yearbooks, 1973. No ISBN.

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