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USS Norton Sound (AV-11/AVM-1) was originally built as a Currituck-class seaplane tender by Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California.She was named for Norton Sound, a large inlet in West Alaska, between the Seward Peninsula and the mouths of the Yukon, north-east of the Bering Sea.
[11] [6] Norton Sound, Pine Island and Salisbury Sound were all built by Todd Shipyard on the west coast and entered service by mid-1945. In 1948 Norton Sound was selected to be converted to a guided missile trials ship. The ship had its two forward 5-inch guns removed and a helicopter platform installed and also had its stern crane removed.
Norton Sound. Norton Sound (Inupiaq: Imaqpak) is an inlet of the Bering Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula. [1] It is about 240 km (150 mi) long and 200 km (125 mi) wide. The Yukon River delta forms a portion of the south shore and water from the Yukon influences this body of water. It is ice ...
The Corwin continued in the passenger and freight business [65] [66] and from 1906 to 1910 held a contract to transport mail to towns on Norton Sound and the Seward Peninsula. She was the first ship to reach Nome in the spring in 1902–1909, 1913 and 1914. She generally returned to Puget Sound in the fall and was often the last ship out of Nome.
Pine Island Sound in Florida (not the island itself) The four ships in this class were Currituck Sound; Norton Sound; Salisbury Sound and Pine Island Sound. Builder: Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California: Laid down: 16 November 1942: Launched: 26 February 1944: Commissioned: 26 April 1945: Decommissioned: 1 May ...
The Navy’s ability to build lower-cost warships that can shoot down Houthi rebel missiles in the Red Sea depends in part on a 25-year-old laborer who previously made parts for garbage trucks.
USS Atule during Operation Nanook (1946).. Operation Nanook was an Arctic expedition undertaken by the United States Navy in 1946. It consisted of USS Norton Sound (AV-11), USS Atule (SS-403), USCGC Northwind, USS Alcona (AK-157), USS Beltrami (AK-162), and USS Whitewood (AN-63). [1]
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