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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 1 July 1946 and sold 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.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
Yacht Caroline
Hilo 75k . Bath Iron Works
Hilo 83k . Jim Rogers
Hilo 148k c. 1931
Main salon		 Jim Rogers
Yacht Moana
Hilo 25k c. October 1940
Photo by Morris Rosenfeld		 John Johnston
USS Hilo (AGP 2)
Hilo 58k c. 1944 John Johnston
Hilo 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
Hilo 92k Photographed on 8 September 1944 at New Amsterdam Is., Dutch New Guinea, while serving as flagship of Com MTB Rons.
National Archives photo 19-N-83478		 Naval Historical Center
Hilo 127k Photographed on 8 September 1944 at New Amsterdam Is., Dutch New Guinea, while serving as flagship of Com MTB Rons.
National Archives photo 80-G-258698		 Naval Historical Center
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