USS Tuluran ( AG - 46 ) USS " Tuluran " ( AG - 46 ) – also known as USS " Lake Superior " ( ID - 2995 ) – was a commercial cargo ship acquired by the U . S . Navy for service during both World War I , when she was known as USS " Lake Superior " , and also during World War II , when she was known as USS " Tuluran " . Constructed in Ohio in 1917 . " Anna Shafer " — a cargo ship built in 1917 at Toledo , Ohio , by the Toledo Shipbuilding Co . and renamed " Tuluran " on 6 May 1942 — was acquired by the Navy through the War Shipping Administration and designated " AG - 46 " on 16 October 1942 ; completed conversion at the General Engineering & Drydock Co . , Alameda , California , on 8 December 1942 ; and commissioned at San Francisco , California , on 11 December 1942 , Lt . F . G . Isbell , USNR , in command . World War II service . Three days later , " Tuluran " joined the U . S . Pacific Fleet Service Force . On Christmas Eve , the ship stood out of San Francisco , bound for the South Pacific Ocean . After stopping at Pearl Harbor from 6 January to 22 February 1943 , " Tuluran " continued on to Samoa , arriving in Tutuila on the 28th . She operated at Samoa for the next nine months before departing Tutuila on 26 November bound for the United States . After a one - day stop at Pearl Harbor on 11 December , she continued on to San Diego , California , where she arrived on 23 December . For the next four months , " Tuluran " underwent an extensive overhaul . On 19 April 1944 , " Tuluran " departed the U . S . West Coast to return to the South Pacific Ocean and duty shuttling cargo between bases in the rear areas of the war zone . She stopped at Pearl Harbor from 29 April to 2 May and returned to Tutuila on 13 May . This time , however , she only remained overnight and , the following day , resumed her voyage . The cargo ship reached the New Hebrides Islands on the 21st . Eight days later , " Tuluran " departed Espiritu Santo to deliver cargo to the southern Solomon Islands . She reached Guadalcanal on 5 June and remained there until the 20th when she headed back to the New Hebrides , arriving at Espiritu Santo on 3 July . She remained until early August when she moved to the New Guinea area where she operated from 17 August until the beginning of October , when she steamed via Espiritu Santo to the Solomons . After serving at Guadalcanal until mid - November , the ship made her first voyage to the Central Pacific . Following visits to Saipan in the Mariana Islands and to Peleliu in the Palau Islands , she returned to the southwestern Pacific in mid - December . She visited the Russell Islands subgroup in the Solomons from 17 to 19 December and spent a month at Nouméa , New Caledonia , from 24 December 1944 to 24 January 1945 , before returning to Espiritu Santo on the 27th . She departed the New Hebrides once more on 19 February and headed back to the Solomon Islands , where she operated for the next two months . During that tour of duty , she returned to Guadalcanal first and then visited the Treasury Islands subgroup , Bougainville , the Green Islands , and the Russell Islands again as well as making a side trip to Emirau Island . On 3 April , the cargo ship departed the Russell subgroup and headed back to the Central Pacific . For the remainder of the war , " Tuluran " carried cargo between the American bases and anchorages established at various atolls in the Marshall Islands , the Caroline Islands , and the Mariana Islands . Her itinerary over the last five months of the war included Eniwetok , Ulithi , Peleliu , Guam , and Saipan . On 8 August , a week before the cessation of hostilities , " Tuluran " stood out of Eniwetok bound for Hawaii . Japan capitulated a week before the ship arrived in Pearl Harbor . " Tuluran " spent three days at Oahu and then continued her voyage east on 24 August . Post - war dispositioning . On 3 September , she entered San Francisco ; and , on 20 December 1945 , " Tuluran " was decommissioned . She was stripped of usable materiel at Mare Island Naval Shipyard . Her name was struck from the Navy List on 8 January 1946 , and the Commandant , 12th Naval District , turned her over to the U . S . Maritime Commission for final disposition on 1 July 1946 . On 26 December , she was sold to the American Iron & Metal Company and subsequently scrapped .