USCGC Bering Strait - Whec 382

Navy as a seaplane tender during WWII. She was commissioned in 1944 and saw action including amphibious assaults and occupation of Japan in the Pacific Theater. She was decommissioned in 1946 and recommissioned in 1948 as the USCGC Bering Strait and later transferred to Honolulu. The Bering Strait conducted weather patrols in the Pacific until she was assigned to the newly formed Coast Guard Squad

ron 3 in Vietnam as a part of Operation Market Time from May, 1967 to February, 1968. She then returned to Honolulu for Ocean Station Victor patrols until she was again reassigned to Coast Guard Squadron Three, Vietnam, from 17 May to 31 December 1970. Bering Strait was transferred to South Vietnam on 1 January 1971 and renamed Tran Quang Khai. She fled to Philippines at the fall of South Vietnam. She then joined the Philippine Navy as Diego Silang and was non-operational by June of 1985. She was finally scrapped around 1990.