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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

AVP-48 Onslow

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Juliet - Echo

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 20APR44, 10SEP44) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4)
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Korean Service Medal (1) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender

Laid down, 18 May 1942, at Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, WA.

Launched, 20 September 1942

Commissioned, USS Onslow (AVP-48), 22 December 1943, CDR. Alden D. Schwarz in command

During WWII Onslow was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Marshall Islands operation March-April 1944	Western Caroline Islands operation Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 16 September to 13 November 1944
Marianas operation Capture and occupation of Saipan, 14 June to 27 August 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 28 March to 6 August 1945

Decommissioned in June 1947

Recommissioned in January 1951

During the Korean War Onslow participated in the following campaign:

**Korean War Campaign**
Campaign and Dates
Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 13 to 22 May 1952 17 to 27 June 1952

Decommissioned, 22 April 1960

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1960

Sold for commercial service, 18 October 1960, to Philippine Presidents Line, Inc.

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Onslow earned four battle stars for service in World War II and one battle star for Korean War service

Specifications:
Displacement 1,766 t.(lt) 2,750 t.(fl)
Length 311' 8"
Beam 41' 1"
Draft 13' 6"
Speed 18.6kts.
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

Size	Image Description	Contributed By / Source
122k	Onslow (AVP-48) fitting out at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, WA., 10 July 1943. The outboard hull is probably Orca (AVP-49). The old paddle-wheel ferry was the *West Seattle. NARA photo # 19-N-51143*, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
127k	Onslow (AVP-48) fitting out at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, WA., 10 July 1943. Also visible in this photo are Oyster Bay (AGP-6), lower left, and Mobjack (AVP-7), lower right with the crane. The old paddle-wheel ferry is the *West Seattle. NARA photo # 19-N-51144*, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
115k	Onslow (AVP-48) fitting out at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, WA., 10 July 1943. Also visible in this photo is Mobjack (AGP-7), on the left behind the crane. NARA photo # 19-N-51145, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
83k	Onslow (AVP-48), port broadside view. Underway near her builder's yard at Houghton, WA., 9 January 1944. She has a main armament of three 5"/38 guns. NARA photo # 19-N-58160, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
75k	Onslow (AVP-48), port quarter view. Underway near her builder's yard at Houghton, WA., 9 January 1944. NARA photo # 19-N-58162, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
71k	Onslow (AVP-48), port bow view. Underway near her builder's yard at Houghton, WA., 9 January 1944. NARA photo # 19-N-58161, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
94k	Onslow (AVP-48) at Saipan, 22 June 1944. Photographed from Pocomoke (AV-9). Note *Onslow* is painted camouflage scheme 32/2Ax. US Navy photo # NH 97672, from the US Naval Historical collections	US Naval Historical Center
81k	Onslow (AVP-48) refuelling a PBM flying boat at sea around December 1944. US Navy photo # NH 97712, from the US Naval Historical collections	Robert Hurst
105k	Onslow (AVP-48) refueling a PBM, December 1944. Note name "Unaymit" and insignia painted on the plane's bow. Also multi-colored fender between plane and ship. US Navy photo # NH 97673, from the US Naval Historical collections	US Naval Historical Center
109k	Onslow (AVP-48) underway, date and location unknown.	Hazegray & Underway Web Site
263k	Onslow (AVP-48) is on the opposite side of the pier in this aft starboard plan view of Juneau (CLAA-119) at Navy Yard Mare Island, 26 January 1952. Also on the opposite side of the pier is Hollister (DD-788). The antenna of Whitehurst (DE-634) is in the foreground. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 11651-1-52	Darryl Baker
103k	Onslow (AVP-48), 10 June 1952. Despite an early postwar rearrangement of her armament, she retains an open 5"/38 mount aft. Note the aviation insignia on the bow aft of the hull number. NARA photo # 80-G-444134, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
24k	Onslow (AVP-48) as Station Ship, Hong Kong 1956	Joseph A. Patton QMCS USN Ret. USS Onslow 1956-57
27k	Onslow (AVP-48) anchored in the Pescadores Islands, R. O. C. circa 1956-57.	Joseph A. Patton QMCS USN Ret. USS Onslow 1956-57
90k	Onslow (AVP-48) underway in San Francisco Bay, November 1957. Photo ©Allied Photographers of San Francisco.	Robert M. Cieri