U.S.S. Avocet
AVP-4
1941
(Neptun N-1384P)
- Class: AM - 9 small seaplane tenders of 1936
- Displacement: 1,350 tons
- Dimensions: 188 x 35.5 x 13 ft
- Machinery: Steam reciprocating, VTE, 1 shaft, 1400 shp = 13.5 knots
- Armament: 1-3"/50 DP
- Complement: 85
- Builder: Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, MD
- Laid down: 13 Sep 1918
- Launched: 9 Mar 1918
- Commissioned: 17 Sep 1918 / 8 Sep 1925
- Decommissioned: 3 Apr 1922 / 10 Dec 1945
- Notes: Commissioned as Minesweeper No.19, later designated AM-19 on 17 Feb 1920. Engaged in sweeping the North Sea mine fields in 1919 after end of World War I. Sent to Pacific in 1920, serving at San Diego and Pearl Harbor before proceeding to the Philippines. Decommissioned at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, in 1922 and then reactivated three years later to serve as an aircraft tender. Reclassified as a small seaplane tender, AVP-4, 22 Jan 1936, she underwent a conversion in Mar 1938. In Jan 1938 she salvaged wreckage of the Pan Am seaplane "Samoan Clipper" piloted by Ed Musick, which had exploded returning to Pago Pago, Samoa. Present at Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, she was berthed along the southeast side of Ford Island a little south of battleship California. After an overhaul in Seatle, she departed in Jul 1942 for Kodiak, Alaska, where she served as a unit of Patrol Wing 4 in the Alaskan and Aleutian theatres for the remainder of World War II.
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