USS Tuluran, a 4500-ton (displacement) miscellaneous auxiliary, was built in 1917 as the freighter War Bayonet. She was USS Lake Superior (ID # 2995) during 1918-1919 and subsequently the civilian vessel C.D. Johnson III and Anna Schafer. The Navy reacquired the ship from the Maritime Commission in 1942. Renamed Tuluran and designated AG-46, she was converted at Alameda, California, and placed in commission in December 1942. Serving with the Pacific Fleet's Service Force, she was active in Samoa between February and November 1943, then returned to the West Coast for overhaul. In April and May 1944 Tuluran steamed back to the southern Pacific where, with some voyages into the central Pacific, she operated until August 1945. She was decommissioned in December 1945 and turned over the the Maritime Commission in July 1946. Tuluran was sold for scrapping in December 1946.