High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Deal (AG-131/AKL-2) was a Camano-class cargo ship constructed for the U.S. Army as USAT FS-263 shortly before the end of World War II and later acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1947. She was configured as a transport and cargo ship and operated with the U.S. Pacific Fleet from post-World War II and on through the end of the Korean War.