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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

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USS San Pablo (AGS-30)
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USS San Pablo (AVP-30) (1943 - 1948)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Uniform - Kilo NBUK

San Pablo (AVP-30) Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right top to bottom
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal

San Pablo (AGS-30) Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (6-Cuba) - National Defense Service Medal

Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender:

Laid down, 2 July 1941, at Associated Ship Building Inc., Seattle, WA.

Launched, 31 March 1942

Commissioned, USS San Pablo (AVP-30), 15 March 1943

Decommissioned, 13 January 1947, CDR. R. R. Darron in command

Laid up in the Reserve Fleet

Recommissioned, USS San Pablo (AGS-30), 17 September 1948, San Francisco, CA., CDR. T. E. Chambers in command

Decommissioned, 29 May 1969

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1969

Loaned to Ocean Science Center of the Atlantic Commission, Savannah GA., 14 September 1971

Final Disposition, sold to Margo Zahardis, Vancouver, WA., fate unknown

USS San Pablo (AVP-30) earned four battle stars for World War II service

AVP Specifications:
Displacement 1,766 t.(lt) 2,750 t.(fl), 2,800 t.(lim)
Length 310' 9"
Beam 41' 2"
Draft 13' 6" (lim)
Speed 18.2 kts. (trial)
Complement

Officers 73

Enlisted 294
Largest Boom Capacity 10 t.
Armament

one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount

two twin 40mm AA gun mounts

one quad 40mm AA gun mounts

four twin 20mm AA gun mounts
Fuel Capacities

Diesel 1,955Bbls

Gasoline 84,340Gals
Propulsion

four Fairbanks Morse Diesel 32D81/8

single Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gear

Ships Service Generators

one Diesel-drive 100Kw 450V A.C.

one Diesel-drive 200Kw 450V A.C.

two propellers, 6,080shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS San Pablo (AVP-30)
	98k	*PCO San Pablo* (AVP-30)** near Seattle, Washington, 9 March 1943, a few days before her commissioning, builder's photo US National Archives photo # 19-N-42493, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives	US Naval Historical Center
	103k	*PCO San Pablo* (AVP-30)** near Seattle, Washington, 9 March 1943, a few days before her commissioning, builder's photo US National Archives photo # 19-N-42494, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives	US Naval Historical Center
	102k	*USS San Pablo* (AVP-30) and USS Rehoboth (AVP-50)** moored at Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel Island, Azores, 22 February 1949. Both had been reactivated as surveying ships in 1948 although they retained their AVP classifications until August 1949. US National Archives photo # 80-G-413565, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives	US Naval Historical Center
USS San Pablo (AGS-30)
	47k	*USS San Pablo* (AGS-30)** underway, date and location unknown.	Haze Gray & Underway Web Site
	90k	*USS San Pablo* (AGS-30) moored outboard of USS Rehoboth (AGS-50)** at Monoco, date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, November 1959	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	41k	*USS San Pablo* (AGS-30)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from DANFS.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	108k	*USS San Pablo* (AGS-30)** at sea off Bermuda, 16 January 1962. US Navy photo # NH 97534 by PH2 Warren, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	Robert Hurst
	137k	*USS San Pablo* (AGS-30)** underway, circa 1967, location unknown. US Navy photo # NH 97535-KN from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	Robert Hurst