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PT-435



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Yoke - Queen


PT-435 served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union.

70' Vosper Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 26 June 1943 as PT-435 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI
  • Launched 4 March 1944
  • Completed 17 March 1944
  • Transferred to the Soviet Union in June 1944 and renamed TK-566
  • Fate unknown..

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 39 t.
  • Length 72'
  • Beam 19'
  • Draft 4' 9"
  • Speed 40 kts.
  • Complement 13
  • Armament: Two 21" torpedoes, one 20mm mount and two twin .303 cal. or .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Three 4,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    PT-434 305k PT-434 forward of PT-435 and two unidentified PT boats
    Photo from Bruce Marshall via Stewart Bailey
    Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.

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