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AM-132 Eagle / PYc-40 Captor


Eagle Class Minesweeper: Built in 1938 by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA as the steel hull trawler M/V Harvard; Renamed M/V Wave; Acquired by the Navy, 1 January 1942; Commissioned USS Eagle (AM 132), 5 March 1942; Fitted out as a "Q" ship and redesignated a Patrol Yacht (Coastal); Renamed Captor (PYc-40), 18 April 1942; Decommissioned, 4 October 1944; Sold, 21 February 1945 through the War Shipping Administration; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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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Captor 65k Seen here fitted out as a "Q" ship. -

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