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USS Captor information


Class overview
Preceded byAuk class
Succeeded byHawk class
History
USS CaptorUnited States
NameUSS Captor
BuilderBethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Launched1938
Acquiredby US Navy, 1 January 1942
Commissioned5 March 1942
Decommissioned4 October 1944
Reclassified
  • AM-132, 28 February 1942
  • PYc-40, 18 April 1942
Stricken14 October 1944
Identification
  • IMO number: 5386825
  • Callsign: WB4343
Fate
  • Sold, 21 February 1945
  • In use as a fishing vessel as of 2009
General characteristics
TypeQ-ship
Displacement314 long tons (319 t)
Length133 ft (41 m)
Beam26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement5 officers and 42 enlisted
Armament
  • 1 × 4-inch/50-caliber gun
  • 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns
  • 4 × Depth charge throwers
  • 2 × .30-caliber Lewis guns

USS Captor (PYc-40), briefly the seventh ship to bear the name USS Eagle (AM-132), was a Q-ship of the United States Navy.

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