USS Curtiss (AV-4)
USS Curtiss when first completed in 1940. | |
| 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 & awards | 7 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, February 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 & processing systems | CXAM-1 RADAR from 1940 |
| Armament |
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| Aviation facilities | Helipad (fitted 1954) |
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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.