USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) |
| Namesake: | Oyster Bay, New York |
| Builder: | Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington |
| Laid down: | 17 April 1942 |
| Launched: | 17 September 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. William K. Harrill |
| Reclassified: | AGP-6, 1 May 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 17 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 March 1946 |
| Struck: | 12 April 1946 |
| Reinstated: | 4 January 1949 |
| Reclassified: | AVP-28, 16 March 1949 |
| Struck: | unknown |
| Fate: | Transferred to Marina Militare, 23 October 1957 |
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 Italy
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| Name: | Pietro Cavezzale (A5301) |
| Namesake: | Pietro Cavezzale, a Silver Medal of Military Valor recipient |
| Acquired: | 23 October 1957 |
| Decommissioned: | October 1993 |
| Struck: | 31 March 1994 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping, February 1996 |
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| Class and type: | Barnegat-class small seaplane tender, converted during construction into motor torpedo boat tender |
| Displacement: | 1,766 tons (light); 2,750 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Installed power: | 6,000 horsepower (4.48 megawatts) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel engine, two shafts |
| Speed: | 18.6 knots |
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Radar; sonar |
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USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), originally and later AVP-28, was a United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender in commission from 1943 to 1946. She saw service in World War II.
From 1957 to 1993, the former Oyster Bay served in the Italian Navy as the special forces tender Pietro Cavezzale (A5301).
Oyster Bay was laid down as a Barnegat-class small seaplane tender designated AVP-28 at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton Washington, on 17 April 1942, and was launched on 7 September 1942, sponsored by Mrs. William K. Harrill. On 1 May 1943 she was reclassified as a motor torpedo tender and redesignated AGP–6 and, accordingly, completed to a modified design to allow her to fulfill this new role. She was commissioned on 17 November 1943, with Lieutenant Commander Walter W. Holroyd, USNR, in command.
Oyster Bay departed Seattle, Washington, on 7 December 1943 for shakedown at San Diego, California, which lasted for the remainder of 1943.
Oyster Bay got underway from San Diego on 2 January 1944, steaming to Brisbane, Australia, en route Milne Bay, New Guinea, for motor torpedo boat tender operations in support of the New Guinea campaign. She serviced two squadrons of motor torpedo boats beginning on 28 February 1944 and, on 9 March 1944, got underway escorting 15 patrol torpedo boats (PT boats) to Seeadler Harbor in the Admiralty Islands.
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