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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Coos Bay (AVP-25), 1943-1949

USS Coos Bay, a 1,766-ton Barnegat class small seaplane tender, was built at Houghton, Washington, and was commissioned in May 1943. She departed San Diego for the Western Pacific in July 1943 and served there continuously through the end of 1944. Coos Bay was based at Tulagi, Saipan, and several remote locations during this period, and in mid-1944 she transported men and equipment between New Georgia, Espiritu Santo, and Guadalcanal. In December 1944 she returned to San Pedro, California, for an overhaul.

Coos Bay sailed from Pearl Harbor for Ulithi in March 1945 but collided with a merchant ship enroute. She received emergency repairs at Eniwetok and then returned to San Pedro for permanent repairs. She provided station tender services in Honshu, Japan, between September and December 1945 and then proceeded to Orange, Texas, for inactivation. Coos Bay was decommissioned in December 1946.

In January 1949 Coos Bay was loaned to the Coast Guard as the cutter Coos Bay (WAVP-375, later WHEC-375). She served out of Portland, Maine, primarily on weather station duty. She was returned to the Navy in December 1967 and sunk as a target in January 1968.

This page features all our views of USS Coos Bay.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: 19-N-47253

USS Coos Bay (AVP-25)


Photographed off Houghton, Washington, on 15 May 1943, the day of her first commissioning.
She was completed with a main battery of four 5"/38 guns.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 660 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-47254

USS Coos Bay (AVP-25)


Photographed off Houghton, Washington, on 15 May 1943, the day of her first commissioning.
She was completed with a main battery of four 5"/38 guns.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-47257

USS Coos Bay (AVP-25)


Photographed off Houghton, Washington, on 15 May 1943, the day of her first commissioning.
She was completed with a main battery of four 5"/38 guns.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 620 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-266022

USS Tangier (AV-8)
(center), and
USS Coos Bay (AVP-25) (left)

Seen from USS Chandeleur (AV-10) as she steams out of Ominato, Japan, 16 October 1945.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Coos Bay (AVP-25). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-314117
    Port bow view of USS Coos Bay (AVP-25) entering the floating drydock ABSD-1 on 12 July 1944.

  • Photo #: 80-G-314119
    Port bow view of USS Coos Bay (AVP-25) on the blocks in the floating drydock ABSD-1 on 14 July 1944.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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