Barnegat class

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USS Barnegat in 1941 in Puget Sound
USS Barnegat in 1941 in Puget Sound
Overview
Type Light seaplane tender
units 41 planned, 35 built, 0 active
Namesake Barnegat Bay, New Jersey
period of service

1941 to 1973 (USA)

Technical specifications
displacement

2,040  ts (standard);
2,551 ts (fully loaded)

length

94.72 meters

width

12.52 meters

Draft

3.78 meters

crew

215 + 152 flight crew

drive

2 screws, driven by a diesel engine; approx. 6,000  hp

speed

20  knots (37 km / h)

Range

6,000  nautical miles at 12 knots

Armament

5 "/ 38 guns, several 40 and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns

The Barnegat-class was a light seaplane tender - class of the United States Navy, built from 1939 to 1946 and used in World War II . The lead ship of the class was the USS Barnegat (AVP-10) named after Barnegat Bay . A total of 41 ships were planned, of which 35 were built, 30 of them as seaplane tenders , 4 as motor torpedo boat tenders and one as a training catapult ship . The ships were named after American waters and islands and carried the IDs AVP-10 to -13 and AVP-21 to -57.

After the World War, several ships of the class were used for support duties in the Korean War. 18 other ships were taken over by the Coast Guard and used as weather observation stations under the name Casco class . In 1971/72, seven of these ships were handed over to the Navy of the Republic of Vietnam as part of the Vietnamization , classified there as frigates and used in the Vietnam War. After the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975 six of the ships finally reached the Philippines , the seventh was captured by the North Vietnamese .

Three of the ships remaining in the US were used for marine research and surveying purposes; Furthermore, several ships were sold to allied nations after their retirement, so to the Ethiopian , Greek , Italian and Norwegian navies, three other ships were disarmed and used as passenger ships in Greece.

In the United States, the last ship of the class was decommissioned in 1973, while the second and third users, some of the ships were in service until well into the 1990s.

Ship list

Web links

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