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Hilo (AGP 2)

Call sign:
Nan - Able - Victor - Zebra

ex-PG-58

PatrolGunboat/Motor Torpedo Boat Tender:

Laid down 18 August 1930 as the yacht Caroline by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine for Eldridge H. Johnson

Launched 18 July 1931

Delivered 23 September 1931

Caroline served as a base for scientific research at Easter Island

Sold in 1938 to William B. Leeds and renamed Moana

Acquired by the Navy 28 November 1941

Converted for naval service at Craig Shipbuilding, Long Beach, CA

Commissioned USS Hilo (PG-58), 11 June 1942

Reclassified as a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, AGP-2, 13 January 1943

Decommissioned 3 March 1946

Transferred to the Maritime Commission in June 1946

Sold 1 July 1946 to Pillsbury and Martingnoni of San Francisco, CA

Scrapped in 1958.

Specifications:

Displacement 2,350 t.

Length 278' 11"

Beam 38' 3"

Draft 17'

Speed 14.5 kts.

Complement 105

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount

Propulsion: Two 3,000shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Yacht Caroline
	75k	.	Bath Iron Works
	148k	c. 1931 Main salon	Jim Rogers
Yacht Moana
	83k	c. October 1940 Photo by Morris Rosenfeld	Original photo: John Johnston Replacement photo: Jim Rogers
USS Hilo (AGP 2)
	58k	c. 1944	John Johnston
	96k	Photographed on 25 March 1944 at Talasea, New Britain, with a pontoon dock and four PT boats alongside. She has used the dock to lift one of the boats out of the water for maintenance U.S. Army Signal Corps photo SC-260913	Naval Historical Center
	92k	Photographed on 8 September 1944 at New Amsterdam Island, Dutch New Guinea, while serving as flagship of Com MTB Rons. National Archives photos 19-N-83478 and 80-G-258698
	127k