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Turquoise (PY-18)



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Peter - Xray

ex-PC-459


Turquoise served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.
Submarine Chaser/Patrol Yacht: Laid down 1 August 1922 as the yacht Ohio by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co., Newport News, VA; Launched 16 September 1922; Delivered to her owners, Scripts Howard Newspaper of Chicago, IL in November 1922; Renamed Maramichi, Walucia III, Kallisto and Entropy; Aquired by the Navy 21 August 1940; Entered Gibbs Gas Engine Works, Jacksonville, FL., 25 September 1940, for conversion to Naval service; Commissioned USS PC-459, 5 December 1940; Renamed and reclassified as a Patrol Yacht, Turquoise (PY-18), 1 February 1941; Decommissioned in the Panama Canal Zone, 24 December 1943; Transferred to Ecuador under the Lend-Lease Program 29 January 1944 and named Nueve de Octobre; Sold outright to Ecuador 13 May 1949; Struck from the Naval Register 7 June 1949; Renamed Esmeraldas in 1949; Ran aground 9 September 1953 in Gunyas River, near Guayaquil, Ecuador and declared a total loss.

Specifications: Displacement 565 t; Length 172'; Beam 26'; Draft 11'; Complement 60; Armament one 3"/50 gun mount, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 750bhp diesel engines, two shafts.

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Yacht Ohio
PC-459 141k . Mark Brooks
USS PC-459
PC-459 76k . Mark Brooks
USS Turquoise (PY-18)
PC-459 97k . Mark Brooks
Esmeraldas
PC-459 37k . Robert Hurst
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