If you're going to do it, get it right. First, your link to Wikipedia didn't work for the simple reason that the second parenthesis is outside the link line.
Second, the ship's displacement is listed as 8820 tons. The 20,000+ number is probably the full-load displacement, which is never used in tonnage scores.
Third, the ship was captured at the end of the war, and didn't enter US service until 1946, and wasn't officially commissioned until 1953.
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