USS Duxbury Bay (AVP-38)

USS Duxbury Bay (AVP-38) off Houghton, Washington on 28 December 1944
History
United States
Name:	USS Duxbury Bay
Namesake:	Duxbury Bay, on the coast of Massachusetts
Builder:	Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington
Laid down:	17 January 1944
Launched:	2 October 1944
Sponsored by:	Mrs. R. E. Torkelson
Commissioned:	31 December 1944
Decommissioned:	30 April 1966
Struck:	1 May 1966
Fate:	Sold for scrapping July 1967
General characteristics
Class and type:	Barnegat-class small seaplane tender
Displacement:	1,766 tons (light) 2,750 tons (full load)
Length:	310 ft 9 in (94.72 m)
Beam:	41 ft 1 in (12.52 m)
Draft:	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Installed power:	6,000 horsepower (4.48 megawatts)
Propulsion:	Diesel engines, two shafts
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	215 (ship's company) 367 (including aviation unit)
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar; sonar
Armament:	1 × single 5-inch (127 mm) 38-caliber dual-purpose gun mount (removed ca. 1956) 1 × quad 40-mm antiaircraft gun mount 2 × dual 40-mm antiaircraft gun mounts 4 × dual 20-mm antiaircraft gun mounts 2 × depth charge tracks
Aviation facilities:	Supplies, spare parts, repairs, and berthing for one seaplane squadron; 80,000 US gallons (300,000 L) aviation fuel

USS Duxbury Bay (AVP-38) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1966.

Duxbury Bay was launched on 2 October 1944 by Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington, sponsored by Mrs. R. E. Torkelson. Duxbury Bay was commissioned on 31 December 1944 with Commander F. N. House in command.

Duxbury Bay departed San Diego, California, on 12 March 1945, called at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and tended seaplanes at Eniwetok and Ulithi Atoll before arriving at Kerama Retto off Okinawa on 29 April 1945. She supported the United States Third Fleet through service as seadrome control tender, mail ship, movie exchange, and gasoline supply ship for small craft until cessation of hostilities with Japan and the end of World War II on 15 August 1945.

After the end of World War II, Duxbury Bay served in the Far East, tending patrol squadrons at Shanghai and Tsingtao in China, Jinsen in Korea, and Hong Kong. She then returned to the United States, arriving at San Francisco, California, on 20 October 1946.