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PC-459
PY-18 Turquoise

Turquoise served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.
Laid down 1 August 1922 as yacht Ohio by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co., Newport News VA; Launched 16 September 1922; Delivered to her owners, Scripts Howard Newspaper of Chicago November 1922; Renamed Maramichi, (date unknown), renamed Walucia III, (date unknown), renamed Kallisto, (date unknown), renamed Entropy, (date unknown); 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; Reclassified, renamed a Patrol Yacht, USS 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, renamed Nueve de Octobre; Sold outright to Ecuador 13 May 1949; Struck from the Naval Register 7 June 1949; renamed Esmeraldas, 1949; Final Disposition, ran aground 9 September 1953 in Gunyas River, near Guayaquil, Ecuador, 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, diesel, two shafts, 700bhp.
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