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Photo #  80-G-483681:  USS Timbalier tending two Martin PBM Mariner seaplanes soon after World War II.

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USS Timbalier (AVP-54), 1946-1960

USS Timbalier, a 1,766-ton Barnegat class small seaplane tender, was built at Houghton, Washington, and was commissioned in May 1946. In February 1944 the Puget Sound Navy Yard was directed to complete her and Valcour (AVP-55), but in June 1945 they were ordered transferred back to the Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, resulting in their delayed completion. After a brief period of shakedown training at San Diego, Timbalier proceeded to the East Coast. In December 1946 she departed Norfolk for the Caribbean, and for the next eight years she tended the seaplanes of Fleet Air Wing 11 there and along the East Coast. Timbalier was decommissioned in November 1954 and placed in reserve. She was sold in December 1960 to a Greek merchant ship operator who renamed her Rhodos and converted her into the passenger vessel. She was scrapped at Eleusis, Greece, in 1989.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Timbalier (AVP-54).


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Photo #: 19-N-116680

USS Timbalier (AVP-54)


In Puget Sound on 22 May 1946, two days before commissioning.
Probably photographed by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 98809

USS Timbalier (AVP-54)


Photographed in 1946.
The masts, boom, and stack of another ship are visible just behind her.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-483681

USS Timbalier (AVP-54)


Tending two Martin PBM Mariner seaplanes soon after World War II.
The quadruple 40mm gun mount on the fantail was added in around 1948.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 620 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-47206

USS Timbalier (AVP-54)


Being christened by Mrs. S. B. Dunlap during launching ceremonies on 18 April 1943.
The ship was built by the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 615 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-47206-A

USS Timbalier (AVP-54)


Being launched at the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington, on 18 April 1943.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 620 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Timbalier (AVP-54). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-373857
    Direct port broadside view of USS Timbalier (AVP-54) in Puget Sound, Washington, on 22 May 1946. Photographed by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc.

  • Photo #: 80-G-373858
    Port quarter view of USS Timbalier (AVP-54) in Puget Sound, Washington, on 22 May 1946. Photographed by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc.

  • Photo #: 80-G-373859
    Direct stern view of USS Timbalier (AVP-54) in Puget Sound, Washington, on 22 May 1946. Photographed by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc.

  • Photo #: 80-G-373860
    Bow view of USS Timbalier (AVP-54) in Puget Sound, Washington, on 22 May 1946. Photographed by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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