Please answer the following question: Information: - A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is used in the United States, Canada, Romania, China and Taiwan. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, county towns have a similar function. - The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was an American shipbuilding company that operated from 1899 to 1968, ultimately completing more than 500 vessels for the U.S. Navy, the United States Merchant Marine, the United States Coast Guard, and other maritime concerns. At its peak during World War II, NYSB was the largest and most productive shipyard in the world. Its best-known vessels include the destroyer , the cruiser , the aircraft carrier , the nuclear-powered cargo ship NS "Savannah", and a quartet of cargo-passenger liners nicknamed the "Four Aces". - New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern United States and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies entirely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia and is the third-wealthiest U.S. state by per capita income as of 2014. - Compass Island ( EAG - 153 ) was launched 24 October 1953 as Garden Mariner by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation , Camden , New Jersey and sponsored by Mrs. H. A. Smith . Acquired by the Navy 29 March 1956 and commissioned 3 December 1956 , Commander J. A. Dare in command . Compass Island was one of two ships , the other being USS Observation Island ( E-AG - 154 ) , converted and classified as navigational research test vessels under the Polaris Missile system budget . Compass Island 's conversion was at an estimated cost of $ 19,600,000 . The ship 's mission was to assist in the development and evaluation of a navigation system independent of shore - based and celestial aids , a necessary adjunct of the ballistic missile program . She operated along the eastern seaboard testing equipment and training personnel until 13 March 1958 when she sailed from New York for experiments in the Mediterranean , returning to New York 17 April to resume her east coast operations . A dramatic example of her work was provided when USS Nautilus ( SSN - 571 ) , using the Shipboard Inertial Navigation System ( SINS ) first tested by Compass Island in 1957 , made a submerged cruise beneath the Arctic ice pack , touching exactly at the North Pole on 3 August 1958 . The INS hardware was the N6A - 1 built by North American Aviation , a naval modification of the N6A designed for the Navaho cruise missile . It had also been installed on the USS Skate ( SSN - 578 ) , along with the Nautilus , following successful sea trials on the Compass Island . USS Skate reached the North Pole the week after Nautilus , and in the following year became the first vessel to surface at the North Pole . On 10 September 1958 , Compass Island entered New York Naval Shipyard for overhaul and installation of additional navigational equipment to be tested . With this new equipment , she continued her east coast and Caribbean cruising through 1960 . In 2003 , Compass Island and three other decommissioned US Navy ships , USS Caloosahatchee ( AO - 98 ) , USS... - World WarII (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World WarII the deadliest conflict in human history. - The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the U.S. military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission (with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters) and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its mission set. It operates under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during peacetime, and can be transferred to the U.S. Department of the Navy by the U.S. President at any time, or by the U.S. Congress during times of war. This has happened twice, in 1917, during World War I, and in 1941, during World War II. - Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: "Pennsylvaani"), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The commonwealth borders Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to the northwest, New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east. - Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,442 and more than 6million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area, . Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7.2million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States. - Camden is a city in Camden County, New Jersey. Camden is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 77,344. Camden is the 12th most populous municipality in New Jersey. The city was incorporated on February 13, 1828. On March 13, 1844, Camden became a county seat in New Jersey. The city derives its name from Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. Camden is made up of over twenty different neighborhoods. - The United States Merchant Marine refers to either United States civilian mariners, or to U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels. Both the civilian mariners, and the merchant vessels, are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. The Merchant Marine primarily transports cargo and passengers during peacetime; in times of war, the Merchant Marine can be an auxiliary to the United States Navy, and can be called upon to deliver military personnel and materiel for the military. Merchant Marine officers may also be commissioned as military officers by the Department of Defense. This is commonly achieved by commissioning unlimited tonnage Merchant Marine officers as Strategic Sealift Officers in the Naval Reserves. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'uss compass island ' exhibits the relationship of 'operator'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - canada - ireland - ontario - philadelphia - united kingdom - united states coast guard - united states navy - world war ii
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united states navy