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PT-494



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Love - Jig
80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 20 August 1943 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 10 November 1943
  • Completed 9 December 1943, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron THIRTY THREE (MTBRon 33) under the command of Lt. A. Murray Preston, USNR
  • MTBRon 33, assigned to the Southwest Pacific, had action at Aitape, New Guinea; Morotai in the Halmaheras; and San Pedro Bay and Panay in the Philippines. It also based for a time at Dreger Harbor
    and Mios Woendi, New Guinea, but had no action from these bases
  • The "Blind Date" was placed out of service 24 October 1946
  • 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, four 21" Torpedoes and two twin .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PT-494 166k c. 1945
    Calabarzon Region, Philippines
    Photo courtesy of Ty LaStrapes    		 Robert Hurst
    Boat Captains
    01LT Joseph H. Moran, USNRDecember 1944
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-494
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