USS Palawan
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USS
Palawan was built at Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Company and launched in August 1944. She did service
for the US Navy as a repair ship under second world war in
the Pacific and was stricken from the navy list in 1963.
After years being laid up she was sold to State of
California in 1976. The year after she was stripped of
engines and the superstructure dismantled, and scuttled as
an artificial reef outside Los Angeles. The wreck rest
today on a depth of approx 30 to 38 meter outside Redondo
Beach near Palos Verde.
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33° 49.180' N 118° 24.988' W ( Source: Malibu Divers )  Picture: USS Palawan right after launch Courtesy of Navsource & David Nixon  |
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