USS Captor

Class overview
Preceded by	Auk class
Succeeded by	Hawk class
History
United States
Name	USS Captor
Builder	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Launched	1938
Acquired	by US Navy, 1 January 1942
Commissioned	5 March 1942
Decommissioned	4 October 1944
Reclassified	AM-132, 28 February 1942 PYc-40, 18 April 1942
Stricken	14 October 1944
Identification	IMO number: 5386825 Callsign: WB4343
Fate	Sold, 21 February 1945 In use as a fishing vessel as of 2009
General characteristics
Type	Q-ship
Displacement	314 long tons (319 t)
Length	133 ft (41 m)
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed	12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement	5 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.

Built as Harvard, a steel-hulled trawler, in 1938 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, and handed over to General Sea Foods Corporation, Boston, and put into service as Wave.