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Motor Torpedo Boat Photo Archive

PT-60
ex-BPT-12

77' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 30 July 1941 as BPT-12 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 11 October 1941
  • Completed 25 February 1942
  • Placed in service as PT-60
  • Converted to a Gunboat in 1943 in the Solomon Islands
  • Struck from the Navy list 21 April 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 (Gunboat conversion stripped all armament except the two twin .50 cal. machine guns, then adding two 40mm mounts and four

    more twin .50 cal. machine guns)
    Propulsion: Three 3,600shp Packard V12 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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