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USS Barnegat, the first ship in a large class of 1,766-ton small seaplane tenders, was built at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, and was commissioned in July 1941. She spent her first ten months conducting trials of the new AVP design, first in the Puget Sound area and after November 1941 near Boston, Massachusetts. In May 1942 the tender deployed to Iceland where she tended a seaplane squadron and performed a variety of other support services, and in November she and her aircraft participated in the invasion of North Africa.
Between June 1943 and May 1944 Barnegat operated in Brazil, where her seaplanes sank two U-boats. In February 1945 she arrived in Panama, where she tended seaplanes and conducted a wide range of other support activities until returning to the U.S. in November. Barnegat was decommissioned in May 1946, stricken from the Navy list in May 1958, and later sold into Greek merchant service as Kentavros. |
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