USS Greenwich Bay (AVP-41)
USS ''Greenwich Bay'' (AVP-41), was a United States Navy ''Barnegat''-class small seaplane tender in commission from 1945 to 1966. Construction and commissioning ''Greenwich Bay'' was laid down on 18 July 1944 at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington. She was launched on 17 March 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Francis B. Johnson, wife of the Commander of Fleet Air Wing 6 (FAW-6), and commissioned on 20 May 1945. Post-World War II occupation duty 1945–1946 ''Greenwich Bay'' had not yet left the United States West Coast when World War II ended with the cessation of hostilities with Japan on 15 August 1945. Departing San Diego, California, on 26 August 1945, she called at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Midway Atoll, and Okinawa before arriving at Taku, China, on 5 October 1945. ''Greenwich Bay'' spent the rest of 1945 along the China coast, touching at Tsingtao and Shanghai as well as Taku, tending seaplanes of the United States Seventh Fleet. She operated in Japanese wate ...
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