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PT-319

Call sign:
Nan - King - Roger - Baker

80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

Laid down 26 December 1942 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ

Launched 5 March 1943

Completed 26 March 1943, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FIVE (PTRon 5) under the command of Comdr. Henry Farrow

PTRon 5 was assigned to Panama Sea Frontier from September 1942 until the spring of 1943, when it was shipped to the Solomons. There its boats were in action at Rendova, Vella Lavella, Treasury, Bougainville, Green, and

Emirau. After assignment to the Southwest Pacific area at the end of 1944, the squadron was decommissioned and its boats were distributed to replenish other squadrons which had suffered operational losses

Transferred 15 February1945 to PTRon 9 under the command of Lt. Hamilton H. Wood, USNR

PTRon 9, assigned to the South Pacific, had action at Rendova, Lever Harbor, Treasury, and Green. Transferred to the Southwest Pacific in May 1944, the squadron had action at Mios Woendi, Dutch New Guinea; Morotai, in the

Halmaheras; and at Zamboanga and Tawi Tawi in the Philippines. The squadron also based for a time at Dreger Harbor, New Guinea, and at Samar in the Philippines, but had no action from these bases

Placed out of service 24 November 1945

Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in May 1946 and sold

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 56 t.

Length 80'

Beam 20' 8"

Draft 5'

Speed 41 kts.

Complement 17

Armament: One 40mm mount, one 37mm mount, four 21" Torpedoes and two twin .50 cal. machine guns

Propulsion: Three 3,600shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.