Allied Warships

USS Rockaway (AVP 29)

Seaplane tender of the Barnegat class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Seaplane tender
Class	Barnegat
Pennant	AVP 29
Built by	Associated Ship Building Inc. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	30 Jun 1941
Launched	14 Feb 1942
Commissioned	6 Jan 1943
End service	21 Mar 1946
History	Decommissioned on 21 March 1946 Loaned to the United States Coast Guard and commissioned as USCGC Rockaway (WAGO-377) on 24 December 1948 Reclassified high endurance cutter (WHEC-377) on 1 May 1966 Decommissioned on 29 January 1972 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 25 October 1973

Commands listed for USS Rockaway (AVP 29)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Henry Carpenter Doan, USN	6 Jan 1943	21 Jan 1944 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. James Herve Mills, Jr., USN	21 Jan 1944	11 Jul 1945
3	T/Cdr. William Leroy Richards, USN	11 Jul 1945	15 Aug 1945
4	Lt.Cdr. Harold Thomas Cameron, USNR	15 Aug 1945	26 Oct 1945

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Sources

http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/avp29.htm

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