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PT-343



Call sign:
Nan - King - Sugar - Yoke

80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 5 March 1943 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 13 May 1943
  • Completed 1 June 1943, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWENTY FOUR (PTRon 24) under the command of Lt. Comdr. N. Burt Davis, USN
  • PTRon 24, assigned to the Southwest Pacific, had action at Dreger Harbor, Saidor, and Amsterdam Island in New Guinea, and at Mindoro, Zamboanga, Polloc Harbor, Sarangani Bay, and Davao Gulf in the Philippines. It also
    based for a time at Kana Kopa and Mios Woendi, New Guinea
  • The "Night Hawk", ex-"Pauline Too", ex-"Ahdocon", ex-"Black Hawk" was placed out of service 6 November 1945
  • Sold in May 1946
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 56 t.
  • Length 80'
  • Beam 20' 8"
  • Draft 5'
  • Speed 41 kts.
  • Complement 13
  • Armament: Armament: One 40mm, 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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    PT-343 488k PT-343 in the background
    Courtesy of Alvin Hobson
    Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.

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