Barnegat class
![]() USS Barnegat in 1941 in Puget Sound |
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Overview | |
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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); |
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
- USS Barnegat (AVP-10) (later Greek cruise ship Kentavros )
- USS Biscayne (AVP-11) (later in the Coast Guard as Dexter )
- USS Casco (AVP-12) (later with the Coast Guard and there lead ship of the Casco class)
- USS Mackinac (AVP-13) (later with the Coast Guard)
- (The IDs AVP-14 to -20 carried converted Clemson-class destroyers )
- USS Humboldt (AVP-21) (later with the Coast Guard)
- USS Matagorda (AVP-22) (later with the Coast Guard)
- USS Absecon (AVP-23) (training catapult ship; later with the Coast Guard, in South Vietnam & Vietnam as Pham Ngu Lao )
- USS Chincoteague (AVP-24) (later with the Coast Guard, in South Vietnam as Lý Thường Kiệt , Philippines as Andres Bonifacio )
- USS Coos Bay (AVP-25) (later with the Coast Guard)
- USS Half Moon (AVP-26) (later with Coast Guard)
- USS Mobjack (AGP-7) (AVP-27) (motor torpedo boat tender, later in the US Coast and Geodetic Survey )
- USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) (AVP-28) (motor torpedo boat tender, later Italian warship Pietro Cavezzale )
- USS Rockaway (AVP-29) (later with the Coast Guard)
- USS San Pablo (AVP-30) (later hydrographic survey ship)
- USS Unimak (AVP-31) (later with the Coast Guard)
- USS Yakutat (AVP-32) (later in the Coast Guard, in South Vietnam as Tran Nhat Duat )
- USS Barataria (AVP-33) (later with the Coast Guard)
- USS Bering Strait (AVP-34) (later in the Coast Guard, in South Vietnam as Tran Quang Khai , Philippines as Diego Silang )
- USS Castle Rock (AVP-35) (later in the Coast Guard, in South Vietnam as Trần Bình Trọng , Philippines as Francisco Dagohoy )
- USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) (later in the Coast Guard, in South Vietnam as Tran Quoc Toan )
- USS Corson (AVP-37)
- USS Duxbury Bay (AVP-38)
- USS Gardiners Bay (AVP-39) (later Norwegian warship Haakon VII (A537) )
- USS Floyds Bay (AVP-40)
- USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41)
USS Hatteras (AVP-42)USS Hempstead (AVP-43)USS Kamishak (AVP-44)USS Magothy (AVP-45)USS Matanzas (AVP-46)USS Metomkin (AVP-47)- USS Onslow (AVP-48)
- USS Orca (AVP-49) (later Ethiopian training ship Ethiopia (A-01) )
- USS Rehoboth (AVP-50)
- USS San Carlos (AVP-51) (later marine research vessel USNS Josiah Willard Gibbs (T-AGOR-1) , then Greek motor torpedo boat tender Hephaistas (A413) )
- USS Shelikof (AVP-52) (later Greek passenger ship)
- USS Suisun (AVP-53)
- USS Timbalier (AVP-54) (later Greek cruise ship Rodos )
- USS Valcour (AVP-55) (later used as miscellaneous command flagship )
- USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) (AVP-56) (Motor torpedo boat tender, later in the Coast Guard as McCulloch , in South Vietnam as Ngo Quyen , Philippines as Gregorio del Pilar )
- USS Willoughby (AGP-9) (AVP-57) (motor torpedo boat tender, later in the Coast Guard as Gresham )
Web links
- USS Barnegat in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
- USS Barnegat at Navsource Online