Category:USS Turquoise (PY-18)

**USS Turquoise**
	private motor yacht, later a patrol yacht for the U.S. Navy and Ecuadorian Navy
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Instance of	motor yacht (1922–1940); submarine chaser (1940–1941); patrol yacht (1941–1953);
Call sign	NBPX (1940);
Named after	turquoise (1941–1944);
Country of origin	United States of America;
Manufacturer	Newport News Shipbuilding;
Location of creation	Newport News;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	9 September 1953;
Significant event	keel laying (Newport News, 1922); ship launching (1922); ship acquired (E. W. Scripps, Ohio, 1922); name change (Maramichi); name change (Walucia III); name change (Kallisto); name change (Entropy); ship acquired (United States Navy, 1940); transformation (Jacksonville, 1940); ship commissioning (Jacksonville, USS PC-459, PC-459, submarine chaser, 1940); fitting-out (Charleston Naval Shipyard, 1940); ship reclassification (PY-18, patrol yacht, USS Turquoise, 1941); ship decommissioning (Panama Canal Zone, 1943); transfer (Ecuadorian Navy, Nueve de Octobre, Lend-Lease, 1944); ship acquired (Ecuadorian Navy, Esmeraldas, 1949); striking (1949, United States Navy); shipwrecking (total loss, Guayas River, ship grounding, 1953);
Powered by	diesel engine (750 imperial horsepower, 2, 1940);
Mass	565 UK t (1940);
Beam	7.9 m (1940);
Draft	3.35 m (1940);
Length	52.4 m (1940);
Maximum capacity	60 human (1940);
Cause of destruction	ship grounding;
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