USS Curtiss when first completed in 1940.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Curtiss |
Namesake | Glenn Curtiss |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
Laid down | 25 March 1938 |
Launched | 20 April 1940 |
Commissioned | 15 November 1940 |
Decommissioned | 24 September 1957 |
Stricken | 1 July 1963 |
Identification |
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Honors and awards | 7 battle stars (World War II) |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, February 1972 |
General characteristics [1][2] | |
Class and type | Curtiss-class seaplane tender |
Displacement | |
Length | 527 ft 4 in (160.73 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 3 in (21.1 m) |
Draft | 21 ft 11 in (6.68 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 19.7 kn (36.5 km/h; 22.7 mph) |
Range | 12,000 nmi (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 1,195 officers and men |
Sensors and processing systems | CXAM-1 RADAR from 1940[3] |
Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Helipad (fitted 1954) |
USS Curtiss (AV-4) was the first purpose-built seaplane tender constructed for the United States Navy. She was named for Glenn Curtiss, an American naval aviation pioneer that designed the Curtiss NC-4, the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.