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AVP-28 / AGP-6 Oyster Bay

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Sierra - Victor
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (3-retroactive, 27APR44, 21NOV44, 26NOV44) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)

USS Oyster Bay (AVP-28) was transferred to Italy and renamed NMM Pietro Cavezale (A5301)
Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender
  • Laid down, 17 April 1942, at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, WA.
  • Launched, 23 May 1942
  • Reclassified Motor Torpedo Boat Tender AGP-6, 1 May 1943
  • Commissioned USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), 17 November 1943, LCDR. Walter W. Holroyd, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Oyster Bay was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Eastern New Guinea operations
    March and June 1944     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, November 1944
    Hollandia operation
    April and May 1944     		Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Zamboanga, 6 to 8 March 1945
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Designed duty in connection with
    motor torpedo boat operations, June 1943 to May 1944     		.

  • Decommissioned, 26 March 1946, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 12 April 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Reacquired by the Navy and reinstated in the Naval Register, 3 January 1949 as (AVP-28)
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton, CA.
  • Withdrawn from reserve and transferred to Italy, 23 October 1957
  • Commissioned into the Italian Navy as Pietro Cavezale (A5301)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Decommissioned by the Italian Navy in October 1993
  • Final Disposition struck by the Italian Navy, 31 March 1994, and sold for scrapping in February 1996
  • Oyster Bay received five battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,766 t.(lt) 2,750 t.(fl)
    Length 311' 8"
    Beam 41' 1"
    Draft 13' 6"
    Speed 18.6 kts.
    Complement 360
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts
    one quad 40mm AA gun mount
    two dual 40mm AA gun mounts
    four dual 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel, two shafts, 6,000hp
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    For Full Size Image    		 Size Image Description Source
    USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6)
    Oyster Bay 79k Oyster Bay (AGP-6) off Puget Sound Navy Yard, 28 November 1943, shortly after commissioning.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-54733, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Oyster Bay 80k Oyster Bay (AGP-6) off Puget Sound Navy Yard, 28 November 1943, shortly after commissioning.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-54734, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the US National Archives.    		 Robert Hurst
    Oyster Bay 93k Oyster Bay (AGP-6) off Puget Sound Navy Yard, 28 November 1943, shortly after commissioning.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-54735, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Oyster Bay 82k Oyster Bay (AGP-6) tending PT boats in Seeadler Harbor, Admiralty Islands, 25 March 1944
    US Army photo # SC 271592 from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Oyster Bay 91k Oyster Bay (AGP-6) tending PT boats in Leyte Gulf October or November 1944. The boat approaching at the right is PT-357
    US Navy photo # NH 44315 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Oyster Bay 78k Oyster Bay (AGP-6) anchored in Leyte Gulf December 1944 with PT boats alongside.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-472496, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    NMM Pietro Cavezale (A5301)
    Oyster Bay 42k Ex-Oyster Bay (AVP-28) in Italian service as NMM Pietro Cavezale (A5301) underway, date and location unknown. Hazegray & Underway Web Site
    Oyster Bay 37k NMM Pietro Cavezale (A5301) underway, circa 1968, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Oyster Bay 39k NMM Pietro Cavezale (A5301) underway, near the end of her service. Hazegray & Underway Web Site
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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