Allied Warships

USS Albemarle (AV 5)

Seaplane tender of the Curtiss class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Seaplane tender
Class	Curtiss
Pennant	AV 5
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	14 Oct 1938
Laid down	20 Jun 1939
Launched	13 Jul 1940
Commissioned	20 Dec 1940
End service	1973
History	Decommissioned on 14 August 1950 Recommissioned on 2 October 1957 Decommissioned on 21 October 1960 Converted and recommissioned as aircraft repair ship helicopter USNS Corpus Christi Bay (T-ARVH-1) in January 1966 Decommissioned in 1973 Stricken on 31 December 1974 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 17 July 1975

Commands listed for USS Albemarle (AV 5)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Henry Maston Mullinnix, USN	20 Dec 1940	4 Mar 1941 (1)
2	Cdr. Harold Bushnell Sallada, USN	4 Mar 1941	8 Apr 1942
3	Cdr. Harold Letcher Meadow, USN	8 Apr 1942	6 Oct 1942
4	T/Capt. Irving Day Wiltsie, USN	6 Oct 1942	12 Jun 1943
5	T/Capt. Donald Edmund Wilcox, USN	12 Jun 1943	26 Feb 1944
6	T/Capt. Donald Lewis Mills, USN	26 Feb 1944	11 May 1945
7	T/Capt. Christian Harold DuBorg, USN	11 May 1945

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Sources

http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/av5.htm

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