USS Plymouth (PG-57)
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USS Plymouth
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| Name: | USS Plymouth |
| Builder: | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft |
| Laid down: | 1931 |
| Acquired: | 4 November 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 29 December 1941 |
| Fate: | Sunk by U-566, 5 August 1943 |
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| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 1,500 long tons (1,524 t) |
| Length: | 264 ft 5 in (80.59 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 2 in (14.07 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 155 officers and men |
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USS Plymouth (PG-57), a patrol gunboat, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts, a town founded by the Pilgrims in 1620 on Plymouth Bay, about 35 miles southeast of Boston.
Plymouth's keel was laid down in 1931 by the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel, Germany, as Alva. She was originally built as a yacht for William Kissam Vanderbilt II and was named after his mother, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.
She was given to the United States Navy on 4 November 1941 by her owner and was placed in reduced commission at Jacksonville, Florida, on 29 December 1941 with Commander F. W. Schmidt in command.
She departed Jacksonville on 31 December for the Navy Yard, Washington, DC, arriving there on 4 January 1942. She sailed on 21 January and the next day entered the Norfolk Navy Yard. On 23 January, she was placed in commission in ordinary for conversion to a patrol gunboat. She was placed in full commission 20 April and assigned to Inshore Patrol Squadron, 5th Naval District, based at Norfolk, Virginia. On 8 May she departed Norfolk, forming part of the escort for a convoy en route to Key West, Florida. She was on continuous escort duty between New York, Norfolk, and Key West until 27 August 1942, when she steamed from New York as convoy escort for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returning as escort for another convoy 12 September. She made two more convoy escort voyages to Guantanamo Bay and back to New York between 17 September and 24 October 1942. She then resumed escort duty between New York and Key West. During one period of this duty, 24 December 1942 to 13 June 1943, Plymouth completed eight convoy escort voyages from New York to Key West and back.
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