USN · AGP

Wachapreague

Afloat

Motor torpedo boat tender, AGP-8, laid down as the seaplane tender AVP-56. Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton. Launched 10 July 1943, commissioned 17 May 1944, Lieutenant Commander Harold A. Stewart. She tended PT boats from New Guinea through Leyte, Lingayen, and Tarakan. At Surigao Strait the first contact report went out through her. PT-137's torpedo, aimed at a destroyer, hit Abukuma. She did not fire it, and she did not sink the cruiser. She was not sunk. Decommissioned 10 May 1946. The hull later served as a Coast Guard cutter and in two Asian navies, and is believed to have been scrapped after July 1990.

Type	Motor torpedo boat tender (AGP)
Hull	AGP-8
Builder	Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton
Launched	1943-07-10
Commissioned	1944-05-17
Fate	Afloat. Motor torpedo boat tender AGP-8, finished from a Barnegat-class seaplane-tender hull. She was not sunk. Decommissioned 10 May 1946, transferred to the Coast Guard 27 May 1946, and struck 5 June 1946. The hull is believed to have been scrapped after she was discarded in July 1990.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Wachapreague (AGP-8) off Houghton, Washington, on 20 May 1944, three days after commissioning. The hull number is not readable in this view. The Navy caption identifies this ship. Camouflage is Measure 32, Design 2Ax. U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photograph 19-N-69682. Public domain.

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