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| | USS Belusan |
 | | Belusan, a 200-ton gunboat, was captured in the Philippines in 1898 but never commissioned. |
 | | The first Belusan (IX-187), a tanker, was built in 1920 by Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany, as Vistula; bareboat chartered from the War Shipping Administration; taken over at Brisbane, Australia, 11 February 1945; and commissioned 14 February 1945, Lieutenant Commander W. Allen in command. |
 | | Attached to Service Force, 7th Fleet, Belusan served as a shuttle tanker in Australian waters until departing I April for Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, and Subic Bay, Luzon. |
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