_at_anchor_off_Mios_Woendi_island,_Dutch_New_Guinea,_on_8_September_1944_(80-G-258698).jpg) USS Hilo
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Hilo, Hawaii |
| Ordered | as Caroline |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Yard number | 141 |
| Laid down | 1 September 1930 |
| Launched | 18 July 1931 |
| Completed | 28 September 1931 (delivered) |
| Acquired | 28 November 1941 |
| Commissioned | 11 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 3 March 1946 |
| Stricken | date unknown |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1958 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type |
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| Tonnage | 1,839 GRT |
| Displacement | 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) |
| Length | 278 ft 11 in (85.01 m) |
| Beam | 38 ft 3 in (11.66 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Depth | 22.7 ft (6.9 m) |
| Installed power | electrical: 2 150 kw, 1 50 kw Diesel electric generators |
| Propulsion | 2 Cooper-Bessemer 1,500 horsepower diesel engines, 2 screws |
| Speed | 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Range | 25,000 nautical miles (29,000 mi; 46,000 km) |
| Complement |
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| Armament | 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal dual purpose gun |
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.