Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California
Laid down
7 September 1942
Launched
28 November 1943
Commissioned
8 January 1945
Decommissioned
10 August 1962
11 December 1986
Reclassified
AVM-1, 8 August 1951
Stricken
26 January 1987
Fate
Disposed of by Maritime Administration exchange, 20 October 1988
General characteristics
Class and type
Currituck-class seaplane tender
Displacement
14,000 tons, full load
Length
540 ft 5 in (164.72 m)
Beam
69 ft 3 in (21.11 m)
Draft
22 ft 3 in (6.78 m)
Propulsion
steam turbines, 4 x boilers, 2 x shafts, 12,000 shp (9.0 MW)
Speed
18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement
1,247 as commissioned, 540 after conversion to AVM-1
Sensors and processing systems
Various, including testing of AN/SPG-59, AN/SPY-1 and AN/SPQ-9
Armament
Varied over her career, especially as a test vessel
USS Norton Sound (AV-11/AVM-1) was originally built as a Currituck-class seaplane tender by Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California. She was named for Norton Sound, a large inlet in West Alaska, between the Seward Peninsula and the mouths of the Yukon, north-east of the Bering Sea.[1]
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USSNortonSound (AV-11/AVM-1) was originally built as a Currituck-class seaplane tender by Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California...
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11 September 1976, USS Virginia was commissioned, the first US Navy combat ship with the Mark 26 GMLS. Non-combatant USSNortonSound also had the Mark...
World War II, he served as a naval aviation mechanic overseas on the USSNortonSound. Discharged in 1946, Brady headed to Los Angeles, where his older brother...
participated in Operation Highjump, a 1947 mission to Antarctica) USSNortonSound (Began service as Currituck-class seaplane tender AV-11, later converted...
began an operational aerology system known as Transosonde (trans-ocean sounding), consisting of almost daily balloon flights across the Pacific Ocean from...
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1949, during the Aerobee rocket firing cruise on the research vessel USSNortonSound. On April 5, 1950, Van Allen left the Applied Physics Laboratory, to...
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