The Barnegat class was a large class of United States Navy small seaplane tenders built during World War II. Thirty were completed as seaplane tenders, four as motor torpedo boat tenders, and one as a
USS Barnegat (AVP-10), lead ship of the Barnegat-class small seaplane tenders, in Puget Sound on 14 October 1941
Lapwing-class minesweeper
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The Lapwing-class minesweeper, often called the Bird class, was an early "AM-type" oceangoing minesweeper of the United States Navy. Seven ships of the class were commissioned during World War I, and
Barnegat-class seaplane tender
…seaplane bases they set up. The Barnegat-class ships were the first (and only) purpose-built AVPs, prior ships carrying that designation having been Lapwing-class minesweepers pressed into service as tenders from 1918 onward. They were preceded into service by 14 "Seaplane Tenders (Destroyer)" (AVDs), interim…
USS Lapwing (AM-1) and other ships of the squadron anchored in the Hudson River, off New York City