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C105342
ex-PT-618



Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Baker - Tare
80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 3 April 1945 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 3 August 1945
  • Completed 24 September 1945, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FORTY TWO (PTRon 42) under the command of Lt. Comdr. James A. Danver, USNR
  • PTRon 42 was the only squadron commissioned after the cessation of hostilities. Although assigned to the Pacific Fleet, it was never shipped to the Pacific
  • Placed out of service 28 January 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946
  • Reclassified as a Small Boat, C105342, 27 August 1946
  • 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, one 37mm deck gun, one 20mm mount and two twin .50 cal. Browning machine guns
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    PT-618 276k One of the very last 80 ft. Elco boats, displays her factory developed Mark 1 mount for the 37mm gun. Note how far aft the gun is located compared with earlier boats
    U.S. Navy photo from "Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Vol II" by John Lambert and Al Ross    		 Robert Hurst
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-618
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