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PT-29



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Peter - How

77' Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 28 February 1941 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 24 May 1941
  • Completed 2 July 1941
  • Struck from the Navy list 22 December 1944
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 40 t.
  • Length 77'
  • Beam 19' 11"
  • Draft 4' 6"
  • Speed 41 kts.
  • Complement 15
  • Armament: Two twin .50 cal. Browning M2 machine guns in Dewandre turrets and four 18" torpedoes
  • Propulsion: Three 3,600shp Packard V12 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    PT-28 & 29 104k USS Hornet (CV-8) arrives at Pearl Harbor after the Doolittle Raid on Japan, 30 April 1942. PT-28 and PT-29 are speeding by in the foreground
    National Archives photo 80-G-16865 from Naval History and Heritage Command    		 Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-29
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