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Panamint (1048 words) |
 | Panamint (AGC–13) was laid down as SS Northern Light (MC hull 1354) on 1 September 1943 by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, N.C.; launched 9 November 1943; acquired by the Navy 29 February 1944; converted to a general communications vessel at the Todd-Hoboken Yard, Hoboken, N.J.; commissioned 14 October 1944, Capt. E. |
| Panamint put her rudder hard right at full speed and swung on the anchor to a position paralleling the course of the approaching plane and torpedo. |
| Panamint moored off the shattered naval base that afternoon, and the following morning the formal occupation ceremony was held on her decks. |
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