USS Chotauk (IX-188), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel,was the victim of a typographical error: she was intended to be named for USS Chotank.Her keel was laid down in 1920 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, as Japan Arrow (later renamed American Arrow), transferred from the War Shipping Administration at Pearl Harbor on 29 November 1944, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant Commander W. D. Baker, USNR, in command.