Allied Warships

USS Biscayne (AVP 11)

Seaplane tender of the Barnegat class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Seaplane tender
Class	Barnegat
Pennant	AVP 11
Built by	Puget Sound Navy Yard (Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	1 Sep 1938
Laid down	27 Oct 1939
Launched	23 May 1941
Commissioned	3 Jul 1941
End service	29 Jun 1946
History	Reclassified and converted to an amphibious force command ship at Mers-el-Kebir, Morocco and redesignated (AGC-18) on 10 October 1944 Decommissioned on 29 June 1946 Transferred to the US Coast Guard on 10 July 1946 Commissioned as USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385) on 8 June 1949 Decommissioned in 1952 Recommissioned in 1958 Designation changed to high endurance cutter (WHEC-385) on 1 May 1966 Returned to the USN in May 1968 Sunk as a target

Commands listed for USS Biscayne (AVP 11)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Carleton Cole Champion, Jr., USN	3 Jul 1941	Oct 1942 (1)
2	T/Lt.Cdr. Robert Cummings Young, USN	Oct 1942	26 Aug 1943
3	Lt.Cdr. Edward Herman Eckelmeyer, Jr., USN	26 Aug 1943	Sep 1944
4	Lt.Cdr. Richard H Bates, USNR	Sep 1944	4 Aug 1945
5	T/Cdr. Charles Maurice Ryan, USN	4 Aug 1945

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Sources

http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/avp11.htm

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