High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Saturn (AK-49) was a Saturn-class stores ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering general cargo and equipment to ships and stations in the war zone. The German freighter SS Arauca, built in 1939 by Bremer Vulcan, Vegesack, Germany, attempting to return to Germany after having been forced to put in to Vera Cruz, Mexico, by the outbreak of war in Poland in September 1939, reached Port Everglades, Florida, on 19 December 1939, to avoid capture or destruction by the British light cruiser HMS Orion. Orion's firing across Arauca's bow into American territorial waters prompted a protest to the British Foreign Office and the ship remained interned at Port Everglades. Eventually taken over by the U.S. government, the ship was acquired by the Navy on 20 April 1942, renamed Saturn and designated as a cargo ship, AK-49. Saturn was commissioned the same day at Mobile, Alabama, Comdr. Charles M. Furlow in command.

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