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. Operating from USS "Currituck", VP-40 participated in the last seaplane tender operations conducted by the U.S. Navy and closed this phase of U.S. Naval Aviation History after operating there from 19 March to 12 April 1967. VP-40 logged a total of 860 flight hours, utilizing but seven aircraft from USS "Currituck", which maintained an availability of 94.38%. While operating with the Mobil Riverine Force in Vietnam USS "Currituck"’s call sign was "Flying Goose" On 23 May 1967, USS "Currituck" returned to her home port of San Diego, California and in so doing brought down the curtain on one of the more colorful facets of Naval Aviation operations. She was the last active seaplane tender in the U. S. Navy.