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AVP-29 / AG-123 Rockaway
WAGO / WHEC / WOLE-377 Rockaway


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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Europe, Africa, Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal)

USS Rockaway (AVP-29) was transferred to the US Coast Guard
Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender:
  • Laid down, 30 June 1941, at Associated Ship Building Inc., Seattle, WA.
  • Launched, 14 February 1942
  • Commissioned, USS Rockaway (AVP-29), 6 January 1943, CDR. H. C. Doan in command
  • During World War II Rockaway was assigned the Atlantic Fleet and participated in the:
  • Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-123, 30 July 1945
  • Conversion canceled, mid-1945
  • Redesignated (AVP-29), 26 October 1945
  • Decommissioned, 21 March 1946, at Orange, TX.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
  • Loaned to the Coast Guard, 24 December 1948
  • Commissioned as the Oceanographic Ship USCGC Rockaway (WAGO-377), 24 December 1948
  • Reclassified High Endurance Cutter (WHEC-377), 1 May 1966
  • Struck from the Naval Register and permanently transferred to Coast Guard custody in September 1966
  • Redesignated as an Off-shore Law Enforcement Vessel, WOLE-377, 23 September 1971
  • Decommissioned by the Coast Guard, 21 January 1972
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 21 October 1972, to BV Intershift of Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Rockaway earned one battle star 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
    US Navy - 215
    US Coast Guard - 10 officers, 3 warrants, 138 enlisted
    Armament
    US Navy
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    one quad 40mm AA gun mount
    two dual 40mm AA gun mounts
    four dual 20mm AA gun mounts
    US Coast Guard
    two 81mm Mk 2
    two .50 Cal MG, Mk 2
    two Mk 32, Mod 5 torpedo launchers
    Propulsion Fairbanks-Morse, direct reversing diesels, shp 6,080
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    USS Rockaway (AVP-29)
    Rockaway 50k Rockaway (AVP-29) underway, 5 October 1944, location unknown. Rockaway is painted in camouflage scheme measure 32/5D in this photo. Haze Gray & Underway
    Rockaway 75k Rockaway (AVP-29), 6 October 1944, shortly after her main armament was reduced to a single 5"/38 gun
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-73646, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives         		US Naval Historical Center
    Rockaway 111k Rockaway (AVP-29) tending a PBM Mariner seaplane off Bahia, Brazil, probably during the spring of 1945
    US Navy photo # NH 97495 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Rockaway 68k Rockaway (AVP-29) off Boston, MA., 19 October 1945
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-89796, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Rockaway 81k Rockaway (AVP-29) off Boston, MA., 19 October 1945
    US Navy photo # NH 97497 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USCGC Rockaway (WAGO-377) (WHEC-377)
    Rockaway 111k
    Rockaway (WAGO-377) underway, date and location unknown.    		 Hazegray & Underway web site
    Rockaway 148k Rockaway (WAGO-377) underway, date and location unknown. Ken Laesser
    Rockaway 39k Rockaway (WHEC-377) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - USCG Rockaway
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