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PT-34
ex-PTC-14

Destroyed 9 April 1942
77' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 29 March 1941 as Motor Boat Submarine Chaser, PTC-14 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Reclassified PT-34prior to completion
  • Launched 14 June 1941
  • Completed 12 July 1941
  • Under the command of Lt. Robert Bolling Kelly, evacuated from Corregidor to Mindanao:
    Rear Admiral Francis W. Rockwell, Commandant 16th Naval District
    General Richard J. Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff
    Colonel Charles P. Stivers, G-1, and
    Captain Joseph McMicking (PA), Assistant G-2
  • Destroyed by Japanese aircraft 9 April 1942 from the seaplane carrier Sanuki Maru off Cauit Island, Philippines.

    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-34 29k . .
    PT-31, 32. 33, 34, 35 & 41 65k Guadalupe (AO-32) bound for the Philippines in September 1941 with a deck cargo of six PT boats (PT-31, PT-32, PT-33, PT-34, PT-35 and PT-41) of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three Robert Hurst
    PT-34 & 35 101k Looking aft from the midships bridge structure of the oiler Guadalupe are four PT boats, the PT-34 and PT-35 farther aft; two additional boats forward. The six other Squadron 3 boats were being loaded aboard an oiler at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked.
    U.S. Navy photo    		 .
    PT-34 116k Illustration by Joseph Hinds from the October 2005 edition of America In World War II magazine Joseph Hinds
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-34
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