Duxbury Bay (AVP 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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. S. S. DUXBURY The U.S,S, DUXBURY BAY QAVP-385 is a small seaplane tender 310 feet long and 42 feet wide. When fully manned 'she has a compliment of 250 men. As a seaplane tender her primary mis- sion entails providing fuel, oil, maintenance, and all other services required by the seaplane she tends, However, for the past 7 years she has acted periodically as flagship for Commander Middle East Force. The Dux startedher career on 2 October 1944 when she was launched at the Lake Washing' ton Shipyard, Kirkland, Washington receiving her name from Duxbury Bay Massachusetts. She WHS commissioned at' the same shipyard on 31 December 1944, and saw her first action during an air at- tack in Okinawa on May 1945 suffering minor damage and losing one man - her only fatality during World War II. In 1946, 1947 and 1948 she made three Far East cruises and in March of 1949 was underway for around-the-world cruise whichbegan in San Diego, California and terminated in Norfolk, Virginia