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PT-383



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

  • Laid down 28 May 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 14 August 1943
  • Completed 28 August 1943
  • Placed in service 1 September 1943 and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWENTY EIGHT (MTBRon 28) under the command of LCDR George A. Matteson, USNR
  • MTBRon 28, assigned to the South Pacific, had action at Treasury and Green. Transferred to the Southwest Pacific in October 1944, it had action at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. It also based for
    a time at Mios Woendi in New Guinea and at San Pedro Bay in the Philippines, but had no action from these bases
  • The "Knight Raider" was placed out of service 21 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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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Wheeling 138k 3 September 1943
    Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
    Wheeling (IX 28), seen with PT-382 and PT-383 alongside while serving as Barracks Ship for PT boats
    National Archives photo 19-LCM-dd620    		 John Chiquoine
    PT-383 & PT-548 192k 11 September 1943
    Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
    PT-383 and PT-548 berthed astern of USS Roe (DD 418) during their work-up period
    National Archives photo 19-LCM-dd418    		 Rick Davis and John Chiquoine
    Photo added 27 November 2020
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-383
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