What does AV stand for?

Seaplane Tender

This definition appears very rarely

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In an attempt to make up for the six air-craft carriers they had lost in 1942, the Japanese supplemented the new ones they were building by converting two seaplane tenders into light carriers and, in an even more drastic move, installing flight decks on the sterns of the battleships Ise and Hyuga.

Japan's floatplane dive bomber: built with more than fleet ...

The Navy's first carrier, the Langley, had been converted to a seaplane tender.

USS YORKTOWN: THE FIGHTING LADY

Trimble describes each of the aircraft and some of the highly modified seaplane tenders proposed for the revived SSF, but he focuses on the centerpiece of the Navy's efforts: Martin Aircraft Company's development program to make a seaplane, the P6M SeaMaster, a viable competitor for long-range strategic missions.

Attack from the Sea: A History of the U.S. Navy's Seaplane Striking ...

One of the main jobs at the shipyard was painting camouflage on seaplane tenders.

FORGOTTEN HISTORY MUSEUM PROGRAM UNEARTHING THE EASTSIDE'S INTEGRATED ...

And, in 1940, the shipyard mobilized to constructanti-submarine net tenders and seaplane tenders for the Navy.

A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE AN IDEA IS FLOATED, AND THE EASTSIDE ROUSES ...