Seeadler Harbor with floating drydocks in September 1945

Manus Naval Base, Naval supply depot with piers and quonset Hut warehouses on September 18, 1945 NavalAirstationReceivingstationManus

Manus Naval Base was a number of bases built after the World War II

Battle of Manus The Admiralty Islands campaign (Operation Brewer) was a series of battles in the New Guinea campaign of World War II in which the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division took the Japanese-held Admiralty Islands. Acting on reports from airm ...

by United States Navy on the Manus Island and a smaller island just east,

Los Negros Island Los Negros Island is the third largest of the Admiralty Islands. It is significant because it contains the main airport of Manus Province on its eastern coastline, at Momote. It is connected to Lorengau, the capital of the province, on Manus Is ...

in the Admiralty Islands chain. The major naval base construction started with the Los Negros landings on February 28, 1944. The Navy repaired and did the expansion of the airfields on the Admiralty Islands. United States Navy Seabee built or repaired the facilities on the islands. The large Manus Naval Base, also called the Admiralty Island base, supported United States Seventh Fleet, Southwest Pacific command, and part of the Pacific Fleet. The base was abandoned by the US Navy after the war.

History

Japanese called Los Negros Island the Hyane Island and had built some facilities on the two islands. Manus Island was picked for a major air and sea base as it was near Empire of Japan strong points: 387 miles to

Rabaul Rabaul () is a township in the East New Britain province of Papua New Guinea, on the island of New Britain. It lies about 600 kilometres to the east of the island of New Guinea. Rabaul was the provincial capital and most important settlement in ...

, 694 miles to Truk, 273 miles Kavieng and 244 miles to Wewak. The other reason was Manus Island's Seeadler Harbor, which offered the largest and most protected Southwest Pacific fleet anchorage. By March 1944 the beaches were secured enough that the Seabees started construction. The first airfield captured was Hyane Airfield which was renamed Momote Airfield. While the airfield was captured the outlining area still had fighting and the airfield was attacked two times while under construction. Hyane Airfield has one 4,000-foot runway in poor condition. On March 10, fighter planes began using the Momote Airfield. Seabees completed all Momote Airfield construction and improvements on June 1, 1944 and turned the 7,800-feet runway Momote Airfield over to the United States Army Air Forces. The newly built air base had a camp, 90 fighters and 80 bombers, a tank farm with 17,000-barrel aviation gasoline that was filled from a small T1 tanker harbor and an

ammunition Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. Ammunition is both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines) and the component parts of other weap ...

depot. On April 1, 1944 Seabees started construction at Mokerang Airfield on Los Negros Island with the US Army engineers. The existing runway was improved to 8,000 feet and a new second 8,000 feet runway was built. Built at Mokerang Airfield were: a base camp, supply depot, repair depot, and a 30,000-barrel tank farm. At Hyane Harbor Seabees constructed a 500-bed evacuation

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

for the US Army. For the US Navy, at Hyane Harbor Seabees built a waterfront complex: two

cargo ship A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. Cargo ships are usu ...

wharves, a repair pier, 800-foot ship refueling pier, and a ship unloading and repair crane. Also starting on June 19, 1944, at Hyane Harbor was a pontoon assembly depot, as it was found that shipping pontoon flat, unassembled took a lot less space in ships. The pontoon depot had a personnel camp and warehouses. For the US Army and Navy a large aviation supply depot was built. For the Navy a 5,000 runway was built and a 7,000-barrel aviation-gasoline tank farm. To support the activity at Hyane Harbor a small-boat repair depot and camp was built. As the built up in the Pacific continued in April 1944, two new camp constructions were started on Los Negros Island: Papitalai Point and one at Lombrum Point. At Papitalai Point Seabee 58th Battalion built a base camp, depot, a PT boat overhaul base,

fuel oil Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil). Such oils include distillates (the lighter fractions) and residues (the heavier fractions). Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil, marine fuel oil (MFO), bun ...

and diesel tank farm. Seabee started work at Lombrum Point on April 17, 1944, which become

Lombrum Naval Base Lombrum Naval Base, also known as HMPNGS ''Tarangau'' and formerly PNG Defence Force Base Lombrum, is a naval military base operated by the Maritime Operations Element of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF). It is located on Manus Island i ...

. At Lombrum Point Seabee built seaplane repair base, a ship repair base, and a

Landing craft Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. The term excludes landing ships, which are larger. Pr ...

repair base. Each base required the building of camps, depots, piers and shops. Landing craft base supported LCT, LSM, and a host of smaller landing craft. For ship repair, different sized Auxiliary floating drydocks were towed to the base. The largest USS AFDB-2 and

USS ABSD-4 USS ABSD-4, later redesignated as AFDB-4, was a nine-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-4 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-4) was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by ...

were able to drydock battleships. Also at Lombrum Point Seabee built a seaplane base with a concrete seaplane ramp and 8,000-barrel tank farm. At the captured coastal

Lorengau Airfield Lorengau Airfield was an airfield located at Lorengau on the north coast of Manus Island. History An airfield built to service the missions near Lorengau. Extended by the Imperial Japanese during World War II. Consisted of a single grassed runway ...

a large supply depot was built. Lorengau Airfield was a 3,500-foot grass runway and due to lack of space, it was not improved, but a support camp and depot was built at the Lorengau Airfield. Navy Base headquarters was built at Lorengau, near the mouth of Lorengau River. At the Lorengau Navy Base Seabee built a 1,000-bed Navy Hospital 15. The headquarters also had a camp for 5,000 men incoming Troops. Pityilu Airfield, on Pityilu Island was built to support aircraft carriers, with a training center and storage of 350 spare fighter planes for later aircraft carrier use. Ponam Airfield on

Ponam Island Ponam Island with ruway and base. Ponam Island is located off the north coast of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. The Ponam language is spoken on the island. The Ponam Airfield was built by the US Navy 78th Naval Construction Battalion "Seabee ...

was also built to support aircraft carrier fighter planes. After the war, most bases were abandoned in 1946 and 1947. Momote Airfield became Momote Airport. Some bases were turned over to the Royal Australian Navy and later to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.

Bases and facilities

* Seeadler Harbor Large fleet anchorage (some times called Manus Island Harbor or Manus Harbor) *Lombrum Seaplane Base, with PBY Catalina,

G-21 Goose The Grumman G-21 Goose is an amphibious flying boat designed by Grumman to serve as an eight-seat "commuter" aircraft for businessmen in the Long Island area. The Goose was Grumman's first monoplane to fly, its first twin-engined aircraft, and ...

, PBM Mariner (VPB-71, VPB-52), VP-33 and

VPB-34 VPB-34 was a Patrol Bombing Squadron of the U.S. Navy. The squadron was established as Patrol Squadron 34 (VP-34) on 16 April 1942, redesignated Patrol Bombing Squadron 34 (VPB-34) on 1 October 1944 and disestablished on 7 April 1945. Operational ...

PBY-1 Patrols and air-sea rescue, and FAW-17 Patrol and Reconnaissance * PT Boat Base *

Submarine chaser A submarine chaser or subchaser is a small naval vessel that is specifically intended for anti-submarine warfare. Many of the American submarine chasers used in World War I found their way to Allied nations by way of Lend-Lease in World War II. ...

base *Pityilu Island fleet recreation center for up to 10,000 troops. *

(HMPNGS Tarangau) *Advanced Base Construction Depot (ABCD) - Seabee Camp *Mokerang, floating Liberty ship dock, a fixed Liberty dock, and a pile dock * LST landing beach *

USS Hope (AH-7) USS ''Hope'' (AH-7) was a launched under Maritime Commission contract by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California, 30 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Martha L. Floyd; acquired by the Navy the same day for conversion to a hospital sh ...

, USS Bountiful (AH-9) and

USS Refuge (AH-11) USS ''Refuge'' (AH-11), was a hospital ship of the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was built in 1921 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., of Camden, New Jersey, as SS ''Blue Hen State'', but was renamed ''President Garfield'' in ...

hospital ships *

Lorengau Lorengau is the major town in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. The town is located on the edge of Seeadler Harbour on Manus Island, in the Admiralty Islands, and in 2000 Lorengau was recorded to have a population of 5,829. History World War ...

Naval Depot *Naval Air Station Receiving station, Lorengau *Salami, communication center *Koruniat Island, on 4 April 1944, the 5th Cavalry established a base on this island. * Crash boat base *

Ammunition Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. Ammunition is both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines) and the component parts of other weap ...

depots *Base and Fleet Headquarters *Post office FPO# 3205 SF Manus Island *Quartermaster depot *Medical center *128 storage depot buildings *50

refrigerator A refrigerator, colloquially fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so th ...

storage units *5 miles of road * Water-supply systems able to produce 4,000,000 gallons per day *Many piers and Pontoons docks * Sawmill * Coral quarries for fill * Power Plants * Radar Stations * Mess halls * Tankers:

USS Caribou USS ''Caribou'' (IX-114), an ''Armadillo''-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the caribou. Her keel was laid down by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, ...

, USS Alameda, USS Arethusa, USS Leopard and

USS Armadillo USS ''Armadillo'' (IX-111), the lead ship of her class of tanker was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the armadillo, an insect-eating mammal which has an armorlike shell encasing its back and head. Construction She wa ...

*Repair Base *Major ship repair base with

Large auxiliary floating drydock An auxiliary floating drydock is a type of US Navy floating dry dock. Floating dry docks are able to submerge underwater and to be placed under a ship in need of repair below the water line. Water is then pumped out of the floating dry dock, ...

and ASDB-2 * USS ARD-19 Floating dry dock * USS White Sands (ARD-20) *

Service Squadron A Service Squadron (ServRon) was a United States Navy squadron that supported fleet combat ships and US Navy Auxiliary ships. Service Squadrons were used by the US Navy from their inception in 1943 to as late as the early 1980s. At the time of th ...

- Lombrum *Part depots - Lombrum *

Machine shop A machine shop or engineering workshop (UK) is a room, building, or company where machining, a form of subtractive manufacturing, is done. In a machine shop, machinists use machine tools and cutting tools to make parts, usually of metal or plast ...

s *Engineering camp *Chemical Engineering Camp * Motor pool *

USS Argonne (AS-10) USS ''Argonne'' (AP-4/AS-10/AG-31) was a Design 1024 cargo ship built under United States Shipping Board contract by the International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, Pennsylvania, for the United States Department of War. Named ''Argonne'' f ...

USS Mindanao (ARG-3) USS ''Mindanao'' (ARG-3) was a ''Luzon''-class internal combustion engine repair ship in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. She was sunk as an artificial reef in 1980. History Construction ''Mindanao'' was named for the ...

* USS Medusa (AR-1) *

USS Briareus (AR-12) USS ''Briareus'' was originally the cargo ship SS ''Hawaiian Planter'' laid down as a Maritime Commission type C3 Mod. at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company for the Matson Line and delivered 15 May 1941. ...

* USS Vestal *

USS Cebu (ARG-6) USS ''Cebu'' (ARG-6) was a ''Luzon''-class internal combustion engine repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after Cebu, an island in the Philippines, it was the second ship of the Navy to bear this name ...

* USS Fortune (IX-146) *USS Aviation, parts ship * USS Piedmont (AD-17) *

USS Sierra (AD-18) USS ''Sierra'' (AD-18) was a built just before the start of World War II for the U.S. Navy. Her task was to service destroyers in, or near, battle areas and to keep them fit for duty. The second U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, ''Sierra'' wa ...

USS Whitney (AD-4) USS ''Whitney'' (AD-4) was a ''Dobbin''-class destroyer tender named for United States Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney. She was launched on 12 October 1923, and was commissioned on 2 September 1924. She was decommissioned on 22 O ...

USS Amycus USS ''Amycus'' (ARL-2) was one of 39 landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Amycus (in Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and Melia), she was the only US Naval vessel to bear the name. Con ...

* USS Current (ARS-22) *

USS Apache (ATF-67) USS ''Apache'' (AT-67/ATF-67) was a , later fleet ocean tug, in commission in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1974. She saw service in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Construction and commissionin ...

USS Chimaera (ARL-33) USS ''Chimaera'' (ARL-33) was one of 39 ''Achelous''-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for the Chimaera (a mythological character, symbolic of the destructive forces of nature), she was ...

* USS Currituck (AV-7) * USS Creon (ARL-11) *

USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) USS ''Oyster Bay'' (AGP-6), originally and later AVP-28, was a United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender in commission from 1943 to 1946. She saw service in World War II. From 1957 to 1993, the former ''Oyster Bay'' served in the Italian Nav ...

* USS Euryale *

USS Tangier (AV-8) The second USS ''Tangier'' (AV-8) was a Maritime Commission type C-3 cargo ship, converted to a seaplane tender in the United States Navy during World War II. The ship, the first of the C-3s to be launched and significant in a revival of Paci ...

USS San Pablo (AVP-30) USS ''San Pablo'' (AVP-30) was a United States Navy ''Barnegat''-class seaplane tender which was in commission as such from 1943 to 1947 and then served as a commissioned hydrographic survey ship, redesignated AGS-30, from 1948 to 1969. Thus f ...

USS Willoughby (AGP-9) The second USS ''Willoughby'' (AGP-9) was a motor torpedo boat tender that served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, seeing service in the later stages of World War II. Transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1946, she wa ...

* USS Wright (AV-1)

Airfields

* Mokerang Airfield two 8,000 feet bomber runways, Army and Navy use. * Momote Airfield (Hyane Airfield) 7,800-feet foot runway, turned over to US Army, after war Momote Airport. *

3,500 foot grass runway, not used, became supply depot. *NAS Ponam Airfield on

was built by the US Navy in June 1944. This was an

aircraft carrier An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...

flighter plane overhaul base, has one coral-surfaced 5,000 foot runway. Ponam Airfield did anti-submarine warfare patrols. Later became HMS Nabaron, after the US Navy closed base on September 1, 1947. It was also used by the Royal Navy in March–April 1945, camp was at . **Based at Ponam Airfield was: **78th Naval Construction Battalion **140th Battalion ** ACORN 28 - Seabee unit ** VMF-312 (24 x FG Vought F4U Corsair unit) **VP-130 (15

Lockheed Ventura The Lockheed Ventura is a twin-engine medium bomber and patrol bomber of World War II. The Ventura first entered combat in Europe as a bomber with the RAF in late 1942. Designated PV-1 by the United States Navy (US Navy), it entered combat in 1 ...

V-1 V1, V01 or V-1 can refer to version one (for anything) (e.g., see version control) V1, V01 or V-1 may also refer to: In aircraft * V-1 flying bomb, a World War II German weapon * V1 speed, the maximum speed at which an aircraft pilot may abort ...

unit) **VC-75 ( Grumman F4F Wildcat unit) ** Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 42 **Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 13 **Carrier Aircraft Service 587 **

Mobile Naval Air Base Mobile Operational Naval Air Bases (MONABs) were a series of mobile units first formed in 1944 to provide logistical support to the Fleet Air Arm aircraft of the Royal Navy's British Pacific Fleet towards the end of World War II. Each unit was ...

4, ( Royal Navy) *NAS Pityilu Airfield, on Pityilu Island Built by US Navy in 1944, 5,500 feet runway. aircraft carrier fighter plane training base, with storage of 350 spare planes. Complete camp for 5,000 troops. Was later transferred to the Royal Navy, camp is at **Based at Pityilu Airfield was: **VPB-146 (PV-1, Lockheed Ventura unit) **ACORN 28 **VJ-2 (JM-1 detachment Able, Martin B-26 Marauder unit) **Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 42 **Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 13 *US Navy 5,000 foot x 150 feet runway with 7,000-barrel aviation-gasoline storage **VR-13 Naval Air Transport Service, Brisbane to Manus, with R4D-5 and RY-2 planes **

VPB-117 VPB-117 was a Patrol Bombing Squadron of the U.S. Navy. The squadron was established as Bombing Squadron 117 (VB-117) on 1 February 1944, redesignated Patrol Bombing Squadron 117 (VPB-117) on 1 October 1944 and disestablished on 15 November 1945 ...

with

PB4Y-1 Liberator The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California. It was known within the company as the Model 32, and some initial production aircraft were laid down as export models des ...

s ** VB-106 with PB4Y-1 Liberators file:Aerial view of USS Mindanao (ARG-3) after the explosion of USS Mount Hood (AE-11) at Seeadler Harbor on 10 November 1944.jpg, Aerial view of

after the explosion of

USS Mount Hood (AE-11) USS ''Mount Hood'' (AE-11) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships for the United States Navy in World War II. She was the first ship named after Mount Hood, a volcano in the Cascade Range in the US state of Oregon. On 10 November 1 ...

at Seeadler Harbor on November 10, 1944

Attacks and lose

, an ammunition ship, exploded on November 10, 1944 in Seeadler Harbor. The 350 men on the ship were killed. She damaged nearby ships, like the USS Mindanao which had 180 crewmen killed and injured by the explosion. *

was attacked on April 22, 1945, Mitsubishi A6M Zero thought that the large floating dock was an aircraft carriers and damaged the dry dock. * USS AFDB-2 was attacked on April 22, 1945 also, damaging section G.

Seabees units

*Seabees working on Manus Naval Base: *2nd Naval Construction Regiment:

11th 11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. Name "Eleven" derives from the Old English ', which is first attested i ...

, 58th and 71st Naval Construction Battalion *

5th Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash tha ...

Naval Construction Regiment: 35th, 44th, and 57th Battalions * 40th Battalion *46th Battalion *78th Battalion *17th Battalion *58th Battalion *104th Battalion *20th Special Battalion *21st Special Battalion *22nd Special Battalion *63rd Battalion *140th Battalion *561 Construction Battalion *587 Construction Battalion *621 Construction Battalion *PAD 1 - Navy Pontoons Battalion

Post war

On January 1, 1950 Royal Australian Navy (RAN) founded HMAS ''Seeadler'',

HMPNGS Tarangau Lombrum Naval Base, also known as HMPNGS ''Tarangau'' and formerly PNG Defence Force Base Lombrum, is a naval base, naval military base operated by the Papua New Guinea Defence Force#Maritime Operations Element, Maritime Operations Element of the P ...

(PNG Defence Force Base Lombrum) at the former US Naval Base. The new base replace the older base at

Dreger Harbour Dreger Harbour is a harbour south of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea. During World War II, Dreger Harbour was used by Allied forces after the capture of Finschhafen in October 1943. The US Navy PT Boat Advance Base Six opened in June 1944. The Sea ...

, near Finschhafen. to replace the RAN base at

, near Finschhafen. The base was renamed HMAS ''Tarangau'', the name of the former

base, on 1 April 1950. *Monument 1st Calvary Division Memorial - Los Negros *Remains AFDB / ABSD Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock 2 - Los Negros *Remains AFDB / ABSD Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock 4 *Ship wreck Wrecks LCVP Landing Crafts - Los Negros *Ship Wreck "USS Mount Hood (AE-11)" - Los Negros *Japanese Shipwreck - Los Negros .

Gallery

MapofLosNegrosUSNavy.jpg, US Navy map Manus Naval Base in 1945 ShipRepairFacilities_Lombrum1944.jpg, Ship Repair Facilities Manus Naval Base at Lombrum in 1944. Built by 46th Seabees USS Iowa Floating Drydock.jpg,

USS Iowa USS ''Iowa'' may refer to several vessels: U.S. military vessels Vessels named USS ''Iowa'' * , a battleship that saw action during the Spanish–American War * , a battleship already under construction when she was canceled by the Washington Nav ...

battleship A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...

being repaired at Manus Naval Base on December 28, 1944 ARD20 floating repair dry dock.jpg, ARD-20 floating repair dry dock, for repairing subs, destroyers, and small vessels ManusNavalBaseChapelWW2.jpg, Manus Naval Base Chapel. Chapel dedication services on Easter morning, April 1, 1945 WW2 Admiralty Islands ops.jpg, Map Admiralty Islands operations, 29 February to 30 May 1944 Admiralties-day08.JPG, Admiralty Islands map 1944 Map of Manus and Los Negros.jpg, Map of Manus and Los Negros Kittyhawk on Momote.jpg, RAAF Kittyhawks on Momote Airfield, 8 March 1944 Ponamisland.jpg,

with ruway and base. MomoteAirfieldSeabeesworking1944.jpg, Momote Airfield with Seabees working at night in 1944. CB 40 worked day and night on the Los Negros Momote Airfield. Pityliu IslandAerial.jpg, Pityilu Island with air base. NASPityiluAirfieldmap.jpg, Map Pityilu Island with air base 1944 USNavymaintenancecrewsVB-106Momote Airstrip.jpg, US Navy maintenance crews VB-106 clean engine parts under an airplane wing while raining at Momote Airstrip in March 1944 71 Squadron RAAF Los Negros (AWM image P02874-141).JPG,

No. 71 Squadron RAAF No. 71 Squadron was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) maritime patrol squadron of World War II. It was formed in January 1943 and conducted patrols off the east coast of Australia until it was disbanded in August 1944. History During the fi ...

on Los Negros base Small floating drydock at Seeadler Harbor in September 1944.jpg, Small Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock, repairing

submarine chaser A submarine chaser or subchaser is a small naval vessel that is specifically intended for anti-submarine warfare. Many of the American submarine chasers used in World War I found their way to Allied nations by way of Lend-Lease in World War II. ...

PC-1121 at Seeadler Harbor in September 1944 P02874.256Kittyhawk1944.jpg, No. 76 Squadron RAAF Seeadler USN drydock 1945.jpg, US Navy floating Dry Dock Number 4 in Seeadler Harbor 1945, surrounded by floating barges with workshops and a tugboat, repairing

seaplane tender A seaplane tender is a boat or ship that supports the operation of seaplanes. Some of these vessels, known as seaplane carriers, could not only carry seaplanes but also provided all the facilities needed for their operation; these ships are rega ...

and Navy Liberty ship USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) tending PT boats in Seeadler Harbor on 25 March 1944.jpg,

tending PT boats in Seeadler Harbor on March 25, 1944 USS Claxton (DD-571), USS Canberra (CA-70) and USS Killen (DD-593) in floating dry dock ABSD-2 on 2 December 1944 (80-G-304088).jpg,

USS Claxton (DD-571) USS ''Claxton'' (DD-571), a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Thomas Claxton, born in Baltimore, Maryland. ''Claxton'' was launched 1 April 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas; sponsored by Mrs ...

USS Canberra (CA-70) USS ''Canberra'' (CA-70/CAG-2) was a and later a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy (USN). Originally to be named USS ''Pittsburgh'', the ship was renamed before launch to honor the Australian cruiser sunk during the Battle of S ...

and

USS Killen (DD-593) USS ''Killen'' (DD-593), was a of the United States Navy. Namesake Edward Killen joined the Navy on 5 May 1801 as a seaman aboard the schooner . Accompanying her to the Mediterranean he was promoted to Master's Mate on 9 November 1803. He volu ...

in floating dry dock

ABSD-2 USS ABSD-2, later redesignated as AFDB-2, was a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-2 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-2) was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by th ...

on 2 December 1944 USS Mindanao (ARG-3) damaged by explosion of USS Mount Hood (AE-11) in Seeadler Harbor on 10 November 1944.jpg,

damaged by the explosion of

in Seeadler Harbor on November 10, 1944

External links

1944 U.S. Military Film "The Admiralty Islands" Capture & Occupation Of Manus & Los Negros youtube Manus Island is Important Pacific Base. Australian Diary 72.youtube "They Came To An Island" U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Wwii Seabees Construction Battalions 29564

References

{{Islands of Papua New Guinea Military installations closed in the 1940s Closed installations of the United States Navy Manus Naval Base Manus Province Seabees World War II sites in Papua New Guinea