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PT-444



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Zebra - Item


PT-444 only served in the Soviet Navy

70' Vosper Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 14 December 1943 as PT-444 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI
  • Launched 22 April 1944
  • Completed 4 May 1944
  • Transferred to the Soviet Union in September 1944 and reclassified TK-550
  • 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 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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