High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Gardiners Bay (AVP-39) was a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1945 to 1958. Gardiners Bay was launched on 2 December 1944 at Houghton, Washington, by the Lake Washington Shipyard, sponsored by Mrs. George L. Richard. She commissioned at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, on 11 February 1945, with Commander Carlton C. Lucas in command. Gardiners Bay departed Seattle, Washington, on 1 March 1945 for shakedown out of San Diego, California, which she completed on 20 April 1945. Gardiners Bay then proceeded via Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands to tend seaplanes of Patrol Bombing Squadron (PBV) 19 in a 10-day training period, thence via Saipan and Guam in the Mariana Islands to Kerama Retto, Okinawa, where she arrived on 7 June 1945 with provisions and cargo for Fleet Air Wing 1.

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