USS San Carlos (AVP-51), 1944-1971
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[1]USS San Carlos, a 1,766-ton Barnegat class small seaplane tender, was built at Houghton, Washington, and was commissioned in March 1944. After shakedown training in southern California she sailed for the Solomon Islands, where she carried out air-sea rescue operations between June and September 1944. She arrived off Leyte in October at the beginning of operations there and supported battleship and cruiser observation planes in addition to patrol planes. Except for a cargo trip to New Guinea in November 1944, she remained in the Philippines through the end of the war.
San Carlos arrived at Bremerton, Washington, for overhaul in September 1945. After a brief period of postwar operations in the Canal Zone and Caribbean, she was decommissioned in June 1947 and laid up at Philadelphia. In December 1958 San Carlos was reactivated, redesignated T-AGOR-1, and renamed Josiah Willard Gibbs. She was transferred to Greece in December 1971.
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