USS Captor
Captor underway in August 1944 | |
| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by | Auk class |
| Succeeded by | Hawk class |
| History | |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Captor |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Launched | 1938 |
| Acquired | by US Navy, 1 January 1942 |
| Commissioned | 5 March 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 4 October 1944 |
| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 14 October 1944 |
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| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Q-ship |
| Displacement | 314 long tons (319 t) |
| Length | 133 ft (41 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
| Complement | 5 officers and 42 enlisted |
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USS Captor (PYc-40), briefly the seventh ship to bear the name USS Eagle (AM-132), was a Q-ship of the United States Navy.
Built as Harvard, a steel-hulled trawler, in 1938 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, and handed over to General Sea Foods Corporation, Boston, and put into service as Wave.