&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Plymouth_(PG_57).jpg) 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.