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USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Alpha - Lima
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender:
  • Laid down, 18 July 1944, at Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, WA.
  • Launched, 18 March 1945
  • Commissioned, USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41), 20 May 1945, CDR. Peter F. Boyle USN in command
  • Decommissioned in June 1966
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1966
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 21 June 1967, to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,766 t.(lt) 2,750 t.(fl)
    Length 311' 8"
    Beam 41' 1"
    Draft 13' 6"
    Speed 18.6 kts.
    Complement 215
    Armament
    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
    Propulsion diesel, two shafts, 6,000hp
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    Greenwich Bay 84k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) underway near her builder's yard at Houghton, Washington, 16 May 1945.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-87294, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Greenwich Bay 84k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) underway near her builder's yard at Houghton, Washington, 16 May 1945.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-87295, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Greenwich Bay 72k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) moored in the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, June 1946.
    US Navy photo # NH 81168 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy LCDR W. H. Cressman, USN (Ret.)    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Greenwich Bay 439k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) prepares to come alongside USS Duxbury Bay (AVP-38) in the Red Sea/Persian Gulf area in 1952 in preparation for assuming duties as flagship Command Middle East Force. Carl Musselman
    Greenwich Bay 84k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) refueling a P5M seaplane of VP-44, 24 May 1955. She is wearing the white paint of a Middle East Force flagship.
    US Navy photo # NH 97640 by PH3 R.P. Champine, USN from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Greenwich Bay 58k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) photographed circa 1958 from a P5M, whose port side wing float is visible at the top of the photo. Other P5M aircraft are parked at the seaplane base below. The small cargo ship with heavy lift booms amidships may be the USNS Col. William J. O'Brien (T-AK-246) or USNS Short Splice (T-AK-249) Note also the small unidentified structure on Greenwich Bay's after deck. The original print carried the rubber stamped date 22 May 1958 on its reverse side.US Navy photo # NH 38797 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Robert Hurst
    Greenwich Bay 73k Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) seen here as Middle East Command Ship, circa April 1949 to June 1966. Haze Gray & Underway
    Greenwich Bay 111k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41), at Barcelona, Spain, late May or early June 1961. Barcelona was the first of a series of Mediterranean ports that the ship visited in mid-1961 before transiting the Suez Canal and becoming flagship of Commander Middle East Force.
    US Navy photo # NH 97755 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Greenwich Bay 85k USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41) at anchor with awnings rigged in a photograph released in 1965. She now has a tripod mast and a tall whip antenna right aft..US Navy photo # NH 98799 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Robert Hurst
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