USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) off Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton Washington on November 28, 1943
History
United States
Name
USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6)
Namesake
Oyster Bay, New York
Builder
Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington
Laid down
April 17, 1942
Launched
September 17, 1942
Sponsored by
Mrs. William K. Harrill
Reclassified
AGP-6, May 1, 1943
Commissioned
November 17, 1943
Decommissioned
March 26, 1946
Stricken
April 12, 1946
Reinstated
January 4, 1949
Reclassified
AVP-28, March 16, 1949
Stricken
unknown
Fate
Transferred to Marina Militare, October 23, 1957
History
Italy
Name
Pietro Cavezzale (A 5301)
Namesake
Pietro Cavezzale, a Silver Medal of Military Valor recipient
Acquired
October 23, 1957
Decommissioned
October 1993
Stricken
March 31, 1994
Fate
Sold for scrapping, February 1996
General characteristics
Class and type
Barnegat-class small seaplane tender, converted during construction into motor torpedo boat tender
Displacement
1,766 tons (light); 2,750 tons (full load)
Length
311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)
Beam
41 ft 1 in (12.52 m)
Draught
13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Installed power
6,000 horsepower (4.48 megawatts)
Propulsion
Diesel engine, two shafts
Speed
18.6 knots
Complement
215 (ship's company)
367 (including aviation unit)
Sensors and processing systems
Radar; sonar
Armament
1 × single 5 in (130 mm)-caliber dual-purpose gun mount
1 × quad 40-mm antiaircraft gun mount
2 × dual 40-mm antiaircraft gun mounts
4 × 20-mm antiaircraft gun mounts
2 × depth charge tracks
USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), originally and later AVP-28, was a United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender in commission from 1943 to 1946. She saw service in World War II.
From 1957 to 1993, the former Oyster Bay served in the Italian Navy as the special forces tender Pietro Cavezzale (A 5301).
USSOysterBay (AGP-6), originally and later AVP-28, was a United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender in commission from 1943 to 1946. She saw service...
seaplane tender USSOysterBay (AVP-28) into a motor torpedo boat tender instead; OysterBay was designated AGP-6 and became USSOysterBay (AGP-6). Half...
seaplane tender and Navy Liberty ship USSOysterBay tending PT boats in Seeadler Harbor on March 25, 1944 USS Claxton, Canberra and Killen in floating...
Fleet post office FPO# 3115 SF Hollandia PT Boat Base, (serviced by USSOysterBay (AGP-6)) Altape PT Boat Base Repair Depot Communication center G-2 Navl...
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was launched 7 September 1942 by Jakobson Shipyard, Inc., OysterBay, Long Island, New York. USS Exploit (AM-440), was launched 10 April 1953 by Higgins...
Currituck (AV-7) USS Creon (ARL-11) USSOysterBay (AGP-6) USS Euryale USS Tangier (AV-8) USS San Pablo (AVP-30) USS Willoughby (AGP-9) USS Wright (AV-1)...
provided to USS Richard M. Rowell. The U.S. Navy established a PT boat base at Morotai on 16 September when the tenders USS Mobjack and USSOysterBay arrived...
The OysterBay History Walk is a path through downtown OysterBay, New York that leads the walker to 30 historic sites. It is a 1-mile loop and is the...
Liberty ship USSOysterBay (AGP-6) tending PT boats in Seeadler Harbor on March 25, 1944 USS Claxton (DD-571), USS Canberra (CA-70) and USS Killen (DD-593)...
escorted by PT 329, one of the PT boats now operating from the tender USSOysterBay in Seeadler Harbour. As the patrol moved ashore, Major Carter S. Vaden...
owner, the Virginia Fish and Oyster Commission, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Katherine (SP-715) on 26...
depot. USSOysterBay (AGP-6), USS Hilo (AGP-2), and USS Wachapreague (AGP-8), operated as PT boat tenders at Kana Kopa in 1944. Naval Base Milne Bay supported...
(AT-12) USS Geronimo (ATA-207) USS Wright (AV-1) USS Coucal (ASR-8) USS Mataco (AT-86) USS Portunus (AGP-4) USSOysterBay (AGP-6) SS Stratheden USS Tangier...
later served as the first commander of the Maryland Oyster Police Force during the height of the Oyster Wars. Davidson was born in Georgetown in 1826. He...
developed in the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. The predecessor of the skipjack, it was superseded by the latter as oyster harvests dropped. Between...
colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from OysterBay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the...
Canyon in the south of the Bay. The alga Colpomenia peregrina was introduced and first noticed in 1906 by oyster fishermen in the Bay of Biscay. Grammatostomias...
company with the motor torpedo boat tenders USSOysterBay (AGP-6) and USS Willoughby (AGP-9), the seaplane tender USS Half Moon (AVP-26), and two United States...
Barataria Bay was home to Manila Village. Barataria Bay along with Biloxi Marsh, Pointe-au-Chien and Adam’s Bay since 2014 have been part of an oyster shell...
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