USN · AV
AfloatSeaplane tender, AV-8, the second of the name. Laid down at Oakland on 18 March 1939 as Sea Arrow and placed in full commission on 25 August 1941. Commander Clifton A. F. Sprague had her from the commissioning in ordinary on 8 July 1940. She was at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and was not sunk. She survived the war. DANFS gives her three battle stars.
| Type | Seaplane tender (AV) |
|---|---|
| Hull | AV-8 |
| Builder | Moore Dry Dock, Oakland |
| Launched | 1939-09-15 |
| Commissioned | 1941-08-25 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war. The second of the name, a seaplane tender converted from the merchant hull Sea Arrow. She was at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, moored abaft Utah, and was not sunk. DANFS says she was out of commission at Philadelphia by January 1947, struck on 1 June 1961, and sold for scrap on 17 November 1961. The Naval Historical Center ship page dates the decommissioning in February 1947. Shipscribe prints 5 August 1946, and a Maritime Administration sale on 10 January 1962. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
Off Mare Island, California, about August 1941. Bureau of Ships photograph 19-N-25362. The print header names USS Tangier, 1941. OS2U seaplanes are on the after deck. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the National Archives. Public domain.
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Command
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07 · moored abaft Utah; fired; took survivors off Utah
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