.jpg) USS Biscayne (AVP-11) on 29 January 1942
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Biscayne (AVP-11) |
| Namesake | Biscayne Bay in Florida |
| Builder | Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington |
| Laid down | 27 October 1939 |
| Launched | 23 May 1941 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. A. M. Charleton |
| Commissioned | 3 July 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 29 June 1946 |
| Reclassified | Amphibious command ship, AGC-18, 10 October 1944 |
| Honors and awards | Six battle stars for World War II service |
| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 10 July 1946 |
| Acquired | Transferred from U.S. Coast Guard 9 July 1968 |
| Fate | Sunk as target 1968 |
 United States | |
| Name | USCGC Dexter (WAGC-385) |
| Namesake | Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1801) |
| Acquired | By transfer from United States Navy on either 10 July 1946,[1] 19 July 1946,[2] or 29 July 1946[3] |
| Commissioned | 20 September 1946[4] |
| Decommissioned | 17 December 1952 |
| Recommissioned | 30 June 1958 |
| Decommissioned | 18 January 1968 |
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| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy 9 July 1968 |
| General characteristics (seaplane tender) | |
| 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) |
| Draught | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Installed power | 6,000 horsepower (4.48 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | Diesel engines, two shafts |
| Speed | 18.6 knots (34.4 km/h) |
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| Sensors and processing systems | Sonar |
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| Aviation facilities | Supplies, spare parts, repairs, and berthing for one seaplane squadron; 80,000 US gallons (300,000 L) aviation fuel |
| General characteristics (Coast Guard cutter) | |
| Class and type | Casco-class cutter |
| Displacement | 2,442 tons in 1965 |
| Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) overall; 300 ft 0 in (91.44 m) between perpendiculars |
| Beam | 41 ft 0 in (12.50 m) maximum |
| Draft | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) maximum in 1965 |
| Installed power | 6,150 bhp (4,590 kW) |
| Propulsion | Fairbanks-Morse geared diesel engines, two shafts; 144,442 US gallons (546,770 L) of fuel |
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| Complement | 78 (10 officers, 2 warrant officers, 66 enlisted personnel) in 1965 |
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| Armament | In 1965: 1 x single 5-inch (127 mm) 38-caliber Mark 30 Mod 57 gun mount, 1 x Mark 52 Mod 2 director, 1 x Mark 26 Mod 3 fire-control radar |
USS Biscayne (AVP-11), later AGC-18, was a United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission as a seaplane tender from 1941 to 1943 and as an amphibious force flagship from 1943 to 1946. She saw service during World War II. Transferred to the United States Coast Guard after the war, she was in commission as the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Dexter (WAGC-385), later WAVP-385 and WHEC-385, from 1946 to 1952 and from 1958 to 1968.
- ^ Per NavSource.org at http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/01/0118.htm Archived 16 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b6/biscayne-i.htm Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Per the United States Coast Guard Historian's Office at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Dexter1946.asp Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ NavSource.org at http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/01/0118.htm Archived 16 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine claims the commissioning date was 8 June 1949, but the almost three-year lag between acquisition and commissioning this requires would be aberrant for this class of ships and contradicts the more likely 20 September 1946 date given by the United States Coast Guard Historian's Office at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Dexter1946.asp Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine