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PT-375



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Easy - Able
80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 6 May 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 20 July 1943
  • Completed 10 August 1943, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWENTY SEVEN (PTRon 27) under the command of Comdr. Clinton McKellar, Jr., USN
  • PTRon 27, assigned to the South Pacific, had action at Treasury and Green. Assigned temporarily to the Third Fleet, the squadron was based at Palau, in the Marianas, from October to December 1944, when it was transferred to
    the Southwest Pacific. There it had action at San Pedro Bay and Subic Bay in the Philippines, and Balikpapan in Borneo
  • The "Judy" was placed out of service 19 October 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, one twin 20mm mount, three twin .50 cal. machine guns and four Mk13, 22.4" torpedoes
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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