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C105335
ex-PT-486

Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Item - Oboe

80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

Laid down 27 July 1943 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ

Launched 16 October 1943

Completed 25 November 1943

Placed in service 2 December 1943 and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FOUR (MTBRon 4) under the command of Lt. Comdr. Francis D. Tappaan, USNR

MTBRon 4 was the training squadron, based at the MTB Squadrons Training Center, Melville, R.I. It was the largest squadron, having a peak of 28 boats in service at one time. When the training center

was decommissioned early in 1946, MTBRon 4 was assigned to the Operational Development Force, and based at Solomons, Md. It was the last squadron to be decommissioned, and its boats, PT's 613, 616, 619, and 620, which remained in service under the Operational Development Force, were the last World War II PT's in service in the Navy

Placed out of service 6 January 1946

Struck from the Naval Register 7 February 1946

Reclassified as a Small Boat, C105335, 27 August 1946

Acquired 9 October 1951 from BFM Industries of Brooklyn, NY by Captain George C. Sinn of Wildwood Crest, NJ

Acquired in 1954 by Captain Otto F. Stocker of Ottens Harbor, Wildwood and named Sightseer

Sold in 1978 to Captain Charles Schumann of Ottens Harbor

Currently owned by Captain Ron Sinn of Wildwood Crest who restored her as PT-109

Sold in 2012 to Ron Iannucci of Fleet Obsolete, Kingston, NY.

Specifications:

Displacement 56 t.

Length 80'

Beam 20' 8"

Draft 5'

Speed 41 kts.

Complement 17

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

Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts

Engines were changed to two General Motors 6-71 diesels and one Superior diesel engine. Changed again to two Detroit Diesel (General Motors) 871N diesels and finally replaced by two General Motors V12-71 diesels.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
PT-486
	93k	Looking down into the cockpit	Robert Hurst
	118k	On the Charles River, Boston, MA Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones collection	Boston Public Library
	119k	Radar mast on PT-486 - 563 in 1944 and replacement of mast on earlier boats Elco Radar Mast Drawing No. 37 Scale 3/8" = 1'
	84k	c. October 1945 PT-487, PT-486, PT-545 in the Welland Canal Between Lakes Erie and Ontario along with three unidentified PT boats and an Ore Carrier
	84k	c. 1945 Great Lakes
Sightseer
	84k	Wildwood, NJ
	203k	c. 1954	Gerry McGovern
	430k	c. 1954 Post Card
	28k	c. 1960
	360k	c. 1980
	259k	c. 1984
	261k	c. 1984
Restored as PT-109
	152k	1 March 2002	Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.
	157k	1 March 2002	Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.
ex-PT-486
	219k	Kingston, NY	Gerry McGovern
	106k	28 June 2017 Kingston, NY
	327k	28 June 2017 Kingston, NY