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USS Curtiss (AV-4) was the first purpose-built seaplane tender constructed for the United States Navy. She was named for Glenn Curtiss , an American naval aviation pioneer that designed the Curtiss NC-4 , the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
Martin PBM 5-A Mariner on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum near Tucson, Arizona United States Navy PBM-5A ( Bureau Number (BuNo) 122071 ) is the only surviving Mariner. It is on loan from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. , and is currently on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis–Monthan Air ...
Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum Y Virginia: Norfolk: Hampton Roads Naval Museum: Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine: Y Virginia: Portsmouth: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum: Y Virginia: Quantico: National Museum of the Marine Corps: Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine: Virginia: Reedville
The TS-1 from Curtiss was delivered with wheels, so the NAF also designed wooden floats to enable their use on vessels other than aircraft carriers. Testing went well, and in late 1922 the Navy ordered 34 planes from Curtiss, with the first arriving on board the aircraft carrier USS Langley in December.
Converted and renamed SS Curtiss (T-AVB-4) on 14 May 1986, she was assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), MSC PM-5 Sealift Program Office, Logistics Prepositioning Force. On 20 August 1990, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16 deployed aboard Curtiss. This was the first time a MALS deployed aboard a T-AVB. [4]
The two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan to end World War II demonstrated the threat of nuclear warfare.In December 1946, Marine Corps instructor Colonel Robert E. Cushman, Jr. wrote an extensive staff report to then-Marine Commandant Alexander Vandegrift about feasible massive amphibious landings over small areas subject to potential tactical nuclear weapons.
A camp for United States Marine Corps stationed was also built. In the lagoon the US Navy founded a Seaplane base with seaplane tender USS Curtiss, PBY Catalina and Martin PBM Mariner. The US Navy Fleet Post Office was 808 SF Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. The USS Elder operating as net tender laid nets to protect the lagoon. [4] [5]
In May 1946, Captain Cunningham returned to sea duty as the commanding officer of the seaplane tender USS Curtiss (AV-4). During his time as commander, Curtiss operated with patrol squadrons in the Formosa Strait, ferried men and supplies to outlying bases and made several visits to Qingdao, China, before returning the United States in March 1947.