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933:28 April
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1050:Cacapon
1036:Chemung
766:Hoboken
703:Hungnam
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415:(AO-27)
390:Awards:
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357:AA guns
157:Builder
116:History
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1560:Severn
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1546:Platte
1539:Neosho
1518:Markay
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