USS Albemarle (AV-5) was one of only two Curtiss-class seaplane tenders built for the United States Navy just prior to the United States' entry into World War II. Named for Albemarle Sound on the North Carolina coast, she was the third U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Albemarle, after the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. USS Albemarle (1863) , was a schooner captured and taken into the Navy in 1863 and sold in October 1865.

Albemarle's mission was to bring back to the United States those patrol squadrons whose task in the Atlantic had been completed with the end of the war in Europe, and whose presence...

USS Albemarle (AV-5) was laid down on 12 June 1939 at Camden, N.J., by the New York Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 13 July 1940; sponsored by Mrs. Beatrice C. Compton, the wife of the Honorable...

The USS Albemarle (AV-5) was one of the only two Curtiss-class seaplane tenders built for the United States Navy just prior to the United States entry into World War II. Named for Albemarle Sound and Albemarle, North Carolina, and Albemarle County, Virginia she was the third U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

May 17, 2016 · USS Albemarle (AV-5) served a number of missions between 1940 and 1960 before it was decommissioned and later renovated and then recommissioned as a floating maintenance depot for the Army in...

Notes: During World War II USS Albemarle was assigned to both the Europe-Africa-Middle East and Asiatic-Pacific Theaters. Postwar she participated in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946 as Joint Task Force 1 Task Group 1.1 (Technical Group) Flagship and was responsible for instrumenting all target ships and target areas and the ...

Relieving USS Pocomoke (AV-9) in connection with aircraft torpedo and submarine familiarization training, on the 19th, Albemarle remained anchored in Narragansett Bay until 12 August, providing torpedo services for a succession of squadrons: VP-94, VP-34, VP-33 and Torpedo Squadron 4.

Jul 2, 2000 · Description, history, and photograph(s) of Aircraft Tender USS Albemarle (AV-5) in WWII

USS Albemarle III (AV-5) A town and a sound in North Carolina and a county in Virginia. All three were named for General George Monck, the first Duke of Albemarle and one of the original Carolina proprietors.