USS Hilo (AGP-2) was a converted yacht that saw service as a motor torpedo boat tender in the United States Navy during World War II. It was originally the yacht Caroline built for Eldridge R. Johnson and launched 18 July 1931. Caroline was at the time the second largest yacht and largest American built Diesel yacht. It was built with a laboratory as well as palatial quarters and was loaned and equipped by Johnson for the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition of 1933 that explored the Puerto Rico Trench. The yacht was sold in 1938 to William B. Leeds and renamed Moana replacing an earlier Leeds yacht of the same name.
It was purchased by the US Navy in 1941 and commissioned as USS Hilo, first designated as Patrol Gunboat (PG) 58 and then functioning and designated as Motor Torpedo Boat Tender (AGP) 2 supporting the torpedo boats for the duration of World War II.
USSHilo (AGP-2) was a converted yacht that saw service as a motor torpedo boat tender in the United States Navy during World War II. It was originally...
called a "patrol craft tender." USSHilo (AGP-2) example with a description of the functioning of this type of vessel USS Cyrene (AGP-13) upon which comedian...
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USS Druid (SP-321) USS Galatea (SP-714) USS Gloucester (1891) USS Helenita (SP-210) USSHilo (AGP-2) USS Isabel (PY-10) USS Jamestown (PG-55) USS Lydonia (SP-700)...
November 1942 to 11 May 1944. Squadron 1B arrived on 2 November 1942 with USSHilo as the support ship, which remained until 25 November 1942. On 22 December...
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sometimes seen as Caroline II, that became the Navy motor torpedo boat tender USSHilo (AGP-2). "Athero II". Motor Boating. Vol. 37, no. 2. February 1926. pp...
November 1942 to 11 May 1944. Squadron 1B arrived on 2 November 1942 with USSHilo as the support ship, which remained until 25 November 1942. On 22 December...
docks for repair work, and an engine overhaul depot. USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), USSHilo (AGP-2), and USS Wachapreague (AGP-8), operated as PT boat tenders...
were the USSHilo (AGP-2), USS Portunus (AGP-4), USS Varuna (AGP-5), USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), USS Mobjack (AGP-7), USS Willoughby (AGP-9), USS Orestes (AGP-10)...
Salvor towed ex-Tuscaloosa to Pearl Harbor for storage. Salvor visited Hilo Hawaii for the Merrie Monarch Festival from 8 to 10 April, and Lahaina, Maui...
The first USS Levant was a second-class sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. Levant was launched on 28 December 1837 by New York Navy Yard; and commissioned...
Caroline Islands, and Okinawa. Departing Pearl Harbor she called at Midway, Hilo, Eniwetok, Ulithi, Okinawa, Saipan, Leyte, Samar, and Cebu taking aboard...
USS Coontz (DLG-9/DDG-40) was a Farragut-class destroyer leader/frigate in the United States Navy. She was named after Admiral Robert Coontz, the US Navy's...
was sent for further training with the 5th Division at Camp Tarawa near Hilo, Hawaii, which was preparing for the assault and capture of Iwo Jima. He...
USS Besugo (SS-321, later AGSS-321), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1958. She was named for...
USS Arthur Middleton (AP-55/APA-25) was the lead ship of the Arthur Middleton-class attack transports and was in service with the United States Navy from...
Hawaii on a route of San Francisco–San Pedro–Hilo–Honolulu with passage out taking four days with the stop in Hilo long enough for a volcano visit by tourists...
USS Vent (ARS-29) was a Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken...
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