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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Left US Navy photo NH 64700-KN at right contributed by Mike Smolinski

AVP-50 / AGS-50 Rehoboth

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Kilo - Yankee

Rehoboth (AVP-50) Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal- National Defense Service Medal

Rehoboth (AGS-50) Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal (2) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender:

Laid down, 3 August 1942, at Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, WA.

Launched, 8 November 1942

Commissioned, USS Rehoboth (AVP-50), 23 February 1944, CDR. Robert Crawford Warrack in command

Decommissioned, 30 June 1947, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.

Recommissioned, 2 September 1948, and converted to a Survey Ship and redesignated (AGS-50)

Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1970

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in September 1970

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 two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, two dual 40mm gun mounts, four dual 20mm gun mounts
Propulsion diesel, two shafts, 6,000hp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By / Source
USS Rehoboth (AVP-50)
	87k	Rehoboth (AVP-50) off Houghton, WA., 8 March 1944, about two weeks after commissioning. She was completed with three 5"/38 guns, including an open mount on her fantail. Her camouflage scheme is Measure 32 Design 5D. US National Archives photo # 19-N-62332, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives	US Naval Historical Center
	84k	Rehoboth (AVP-50) off Houghton, WA., 8 March 1944, about two weeks after commissioning. US National Archives photo # 19-N-62333, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
	97k	Rehoboth (AVP-50) off the Oregon coast in April 1944 soon after commissioning. Photographed by an aircraft from NAS Seattle, WA. US Navy photo # NH 97827, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	133k	Direct bow view of Rehoboth (AVP-50) off the Oregon coast in April 1944. US Navy photo # NH 97828, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	71k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) at anchor after her main armament was reduced to one 5"/38 gun in early 1945. US Navy photo # NH 98798, a US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	Robert Hurst
	102k	Rehoboth (AVP-50) and San Pablo (AVP-30) 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 Rehoboth (AGS-50)
	43k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) underway, circa 1953, location unknown.	Robert Hurst
	90k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) moored inboard of San Pablo (AGS-30) at Monoco, date unknown US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, November 1959.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	69k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) at San Francisco Naval Shipyard after a regular overhaul, 5 February 1957. The ship lost her 5"/38 main battery but retained most of her smaller guns. US Navy photo # NH 97829, a US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	131k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) underway in San Francisco Bay, September 1957. Photo @copy Allied Photographers, San Francisco, CA.	Robert M. Cieri
	125k	An undated photo of Rehoboth (AGS-50). She and most other U.S. Navy surveying ships were disarmed by late 1959. US Navy photo # NH 97821, a US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	175k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) underway in the Pacific Ocean, 2 July 1969. Photo by PH2 S. K. Tastor, USN. US Navy photo # NH 97830, a US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	54k	Aerographers aboard Rehoboth (AGS-50) releasing a sounding balloon from the ship's fantail in the North Pacific on 10 September 1963. US Navy photo # USN 090430, a US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
	28k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) underway, date and place unknown.	Tom Thomas
	81k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) underway, date and place unknown.	Photo by Ramon Jackson
	59k	Rehoboth (AGS-50) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo from DANFS.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.