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USS Coates (DE-685) was a Rudderow-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy during World War II and later in the 1950s and 1960s. The ship was named for Carpenter's Mate First Class Charles Coates, who lost his life on 13 November 1942 aboard the light cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52) when it was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-26 during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Naval Facility Point Sur was one of 30 top-secret sites worldwide that were built during the Cold War to detect Soviet submarines. In 1958, the U.S. Navy built a Naval Facility (NAVFAC) ½ mile south of Point Sur on the Big Sur coast to provide top-secret submarine surveillance using the classified SOSUS. The public was told the station was engaged in oceanographic research. Long-range acoustic listening was first tested and partially developed at Point Sur light station. The facility was one of the few stand-alone SOSUS stations around the world; virtually all others were part of larger bases. NAVFAC Point Sur played a key role in identifying the location of the wrecked Soviet submarine Soviet submarine K-129, a portion of which was eventually raised in a significant intelligence coup. The NAVFAC was closed in 1984, when its operations were computerized and its data transmitted to another location. All but one building was donated to California State Parks in 2000, which uses some of the buildings for housing. The facility is not open to the public.
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