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PT-726

70' Vosper Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 31 July 1945 by Annapolis Yacht Yard, Inc., Annapolis, MD
  • Launched 14 September 1945
  • Completed 6 October 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 28 November 1945
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 16 August 1947 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 39 t.
  • Length 70'
  • Beam 19'
  • Draft 4' 9"
  • Speed 40 kts.
  • Complement 12
  • Armament: Two 21" torpedoes, two twin .50 cal. machine guns and one 20mm mount
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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