Allied Warships

Seaplane tenders

US Navy


The seaplane tender USS Wright (AV 1) of the US Navy.

All Seaplane tender classes (in service with the US Navy).

ClassCommissioned
 no class name (2)1913 - 1921
 Curtiss (2)1940 - 1940
 Barnegat (31)1941 - 1946
 Tangier (3)1941 - 1942
 Kenneth Whiting (5)1944 - 1944
 Currituck (4)1944 - 1945

6 ship classes.


Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), those ships are not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Seaplane tenders


 DateVesselClass

1942

US Navy27 Feb 1942USS Langley (AV 3) 

1 Seaplane tenders lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

See all Seaplane tenders

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