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Captor (PYc 40)

Captor call sign:
Nan - Xray - Zebra - Fox

ex-Eagle (AM-132)

Eagle Class Minesweeper: Built in 1938 as the steel hull trawler M/V Harvard by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA for the General Sea Foods Corp., Boston, MA; Renamed M/V Wave; Acquired by the Navy, 1 January 1942; Conversion to a Minesweeper began 8 January 1942 at the Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, MA; Renamed and classified USS Eagle (AM 132), 11 January 1942; Conversion completed 28 February 1942; Commissioned USS Eagle
(AM 132), 5 March 1942; Fitted out as a "Q" ship, reclassified as a Patrol Yacht (Coastal), PYc-40 and renamed Captor 18 April 1942; Decommissioned and transferred to the War Shipping Administration 4 October 1944; Struck from the Navy list 11 October 1944; Sold 21 February 1945. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 520 t.; Length 133' 7" ; Beam 26' 1"; Draft 12' 8"; Speed 12.5 kts.; Complement 47; Armament one 4"/50, two .50 cal. machine guns and four single dct; Propulsion one 650 shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, one shaft.

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	65k	c. August 1944 Seen here fitted out as a "Q" ship.		-

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