Currituck class seaplane tender

USS Salisbury Sound (AV-13) at San Diego Bay, ca. 1957
Class overview
Name:	Currituck class
Operators:	United States Navy
Built:	1942–1944
In commission:	1943–1987
Completed:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Seaplane tender
Displacement:	14,000 tons (full load)
Length:	540 ft 5 in (164.72 m)
Beam:	69 ft 3 in (21.11 m)
Draft:	22 ft 3 in (6.78 m)
Propulsion:	Steam turbines 4 × boilers 2 × shafts 12,000 shp (8,900 kW)
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement:	1,247 (Norton Sound & Currituck) 684 (Salisbury Sound & Pine Island)
Armament:	4 × 5"/38 DP guns 3 × quad 40 mm guns 4 × dual 40 mm guns 20 × 20 mm guns

The Currituck-class seaplane tenders were four ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. The role of a seaplane tender was to provide base facilities for squadrons of seaplanes in a similar way that an aircraft carrier does for its squadrons.

The four ships of the class were:

The ships were named for features on the United States coast.