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PT-463



Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Able - Uncle
78' Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 6 October 1943 by Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA
  • Launched 27 November 1943
  • Completed 1 April 1944, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron THIRTY ONE (MTBRon 31) under the command of Lt. John M. Searles, USNR
  • MTBRon 31, assigned to Pacific Fleet, had action at Treasury Island in the Solomons during October and November 1944; at Palau, in the Marianas, during the period December 1944 to February 1945, and at Okinawa during the
    period June to August 1945. The squadron also based for a time in San Pedro Bay, in the Philippines, but had no action from this base
  • The "5 Boat", ex-"Jan Fu" was placed out of service 17 December 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in May 1946 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 56 t.
  • Length 78'
  • Beam 20' 8"
  • Draft 5' 3"
  • Speed 41 kts.
  • Complement 17
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, two 21" torpedoes, two twin .50 cal. machine guns, one 37mm mount and one 20mm mount
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    PT-463 40k U.S. Navy photo Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.
    PT-463 26k National Archives photo Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-463
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