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USS Hilo (AGP-2)
USS ''Hilo'' (AGP-2) was a converted from a yacht by the United States Navy for service in World War II. This tender was responsible for providing logistics to torpedo boats in remote areas.
==1930s as "Caroline" and "Moana"==
''Hilo'' was originally the yacht ''Caroline'', built in 1931 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine at a cost of 1.5 million dollars for the Victor Talking Machine Company founder Eldridge R. Johnson. At 279 feet in length and 2,400 tons displacement, she was the second largest private yacht in America at that time.〔(Paul Schatzkin, Defying Gravity: The Paraellel Universe of T. Townsend Brown, 2005-2006-2007-2008 - Tanglewood Books, Chapter 30 - The Caroline )〕 The yacht was powered by two 1,500 horsepower diesel engines and had a maximum speed of 15 knots. Johnson offered the use of the ''Caroline'' for scientific research including a 1932 archeological expedition to South America and Easter Island〔"Expedition Sails", THE NEW YORK SUN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932 - page 27〕 and the Smithsonian Institution led Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench, 1933. In 1938 she was sold to William B. Leeds and renamed the ''"Moana"''. The ship was purchased by the Navy on 28 November 1941.
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