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- Seadrome operations were also conducted in the vicinity of Santa Catalina Island, California on several occasions.
- In October 1950 she established another seadrome at Chinhae, Korea, basing there to tend United States Seventh Fleet aircraft conducting reconnaissance until 16 April 1951.
- In August 1960 VP-47 was relocated to a new home base at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington due to excessive and uncontrollable driftwood and debris that continually cluttered the NAS Alameda seadrome.
- After visits to Koh Samui and Bangkok, Thailand she established a seadrome off of Con Son, Poulo Condores Islands, Republic of Viet Nam on 29 May 1965 and began servicing aircraft of VP-40.
- Debris and off-shore gunfire prevented the establishment of the seadrome until 24 February, and " Hamlin " worked under the handicap of large swells and congestion of the sea areas around Iwo Jima.
- She operated as a tender for seaplanes using that port until 12 October 1945, when she shifted to Hiro Wan, where she performed seaplane tender operations and seadrome control duties for a little over a month.
- On a pre-deployment exercise USS " Currituck " operated with VP-42, attached to NAS North Island, for two days at a seadrome established at White Cove, Santa Catalina Island, California.
- The concept of an anchored, stable floating deep-sea platform had been designed and tested back in the 1920s by Edward Robert Armstrong for the purpose of operating aircraft with an invention known as the'seadrome '.
- "' Edward Robert Armstrong "'( 1876 1955 ) was a Canadian born engineer and inventor who in 1927 proposed a series of " seadrome " floating airport platforms for airplanes to land on and refuel for transatlantic flights.
- She supported the United States Third Fleet through service as seadrome control tender, mail ship, movie exchange, and gasoline supply ship for small craft until cessation of hostilities with Japan and the end of World War II on 15 August 1945.
- There for two weeks she tended planes of Air-Sea Rescue Squadron 6 ( VH-6 ), then steamed to Jinsen ( now Incheon ), Korea, where she took command of a seadrome and tended planes of Sasebo, Japan, where she assumed seadrome control.
- There for two weeks she tended planes of Air-Sea Rescue Squadron 6 ( VH-6 ), then steamed to Jinsen ( now Incheon ), Korea, where she took command of a seadrome and tended planes of Sasebo, Japan, where she assumed seadrome control.
- Later they are led into thinking they will be going to the airport while they are driven to Milan seadrome where they meet Natasha and olympic champion Antonio Rossi who will be supervising and helping them in a triathlon session before their photoshoot where the girls will pose to sell an energy drink.
- On 12 February 1965, became the first U . S . Navy ship to conduct operations inside Vietnam coastal waters . " Salisbury Sound " set up a seadrome in Da Nang Bay and conducted seaplane patrols in support of Operation Flaming Dart, the bombing of North Vietnamese army camps.
- USS " Currituck " s final deployment to West-Pac reduced her six month homeport stay four months and she left for operations from a seadrome at her anchorage in Cam Rahn Bay, South Vietnam where she serviced the P5M s ( SP5's ) of VP-40 during Operation Market Time.
- She established a seadrome at Iwakuni, Japan, tending 17 PBM Mariner and eight Royal Air Force Short Sunderland flying boats for search and reconnaissance in the Tsushima Strait and Yellow Sea area, shifting in September 1950 to Inchon, Korea, where she established an advance base for seaplanes making naval mine reconnaissance runs off the northwest coast of Korea.
- Equipped with stern ramps and servicing booms to handle the " Seamaster ", as well as a semi-sheltered area and a service drydock, the ship emerged from the conversion possessing the capability to serve as a highly mobile seadrome capable of supporting jet seaplanes anywhere . " Albemarle " was recommissioned at Philadelphia on 21 October 1957, Capt . William A . Dean in command.