USS Plymouth (PG-57)
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Plymouth |
Namesake | City of Plymouth, Massachusetts |
Builder | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft |
Laid down | 1931 |
Acquired | 4 November 1941 |
Commissioned | 29 December 1941 |
Fate | Sunk by U-566, 5 August 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 1,500 long tons (1,524 t) |
Length | 264 ft 5 in (80.59 m) |
Beam | 46 ft 2 in (14.07 m) |
Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 155 officers and men |
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USS Plymouth (PG-57), a patrol gunboat, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts, a town founded by the Pilgrims in 1620 on Plymouth Bay, about 35 miles southeast of Boston.