USS Cook Inlet ( AVP - 36 ) USS " Cook Inlet " ( AVP - 36 ) was a United States Navy " Barnegat " - class small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946 . She tended seaplanes during World War II in the Pacific in combat areas and earned one battle star for her service . Construction and commissioning . " Cook Inlet " ( AVP - 36 ) was laid down on 23 August 1943 at Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton , Washington . She was launched on 13 May 1944 , sponsored by Mrs . H . K . Stubbs , wife of Captain Stubbs , and commissioned on 5 November 1944 with Commander W . P . Woods in command . World War II Pacific Theater operations . " Cook Inlet " departed San Diego , California , on 15 January 1945 and arrived at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii , on 21 January 1945 . She tended seaplane s at Hilo , Hawaii , from 25 January 1945 to 31 January 1945 . " Cook Inlet " arrived off Saipan on 26 February 1945 to serve with the escort and patrol group based there , and from 2 March 1945 to 14 March 1945 was on an air - sea rescue station during the 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 15 August 1945 , bringing World War II to a close . " Cook Inlet " received one battle star for World War II service . Post - World War II U . S . Navy service . " 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 decommissioned and placed in reserve in the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 31 March 1946 . United States Coast Guard service . The U . S . Navy loaned " Cook Inlet " to the United States Coast Guard on 20 September 1948 , and transferred her permanently to the Coast Guard on 26 September 1966 . She was commissioned as the Coast Guard cutter USCGC " Cook Inlet " ( WAVP - 384 ) on 15 January 1949 and was redesignated a high endurance cutter and reclassified as WHEC - 384 on 1 May 1966 . Throughout her Coast Guard career of almost 23 years , her home port was Portland , Maine , from which she patrolled ocean stations in the North Atlantic , reporting weather data and conducting law - enforcement and search - and - rescue operations . She also served in the Vietnam War for several months in 1971 . The Coast Guard decommissioned " Cook Inlet " on 27 December 1971 . Foreign service . South Vietnamese service . " Cook Inlet " was transferred to South Vietnam on 27 December 1971 and was commissioned into the Republic of Vietnam Navy as patrol vessel RVNS " Tran Quoc Toan " ( HQ - 06 ) . When South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in April 1975 , " Tran Quoc Toan " fled to Subic Bay in the Philippines . Acquisition for spare parts by the Philippines . The Republic of the Philippines took custody of " Tran Quoc Toan " , and she was formally transferred to the Philippine Navy in April 1976 . She was never commissioned into active service , instead being cannibalized for spare parts . She was discarded in 1982 and probably scrapped .