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C105344
ex-PT-659



Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Jig - How
78' Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 5 March 1945 by Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA
  • Launched 19 April 1945
  • Completed 2 August 1945 and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FORTY FIVE but was reassigned later that month for transfer to the Soviet Union
  • Transfer to the Soviet Union was canceled prior to cessation of hostilities
  • Reclassified as a Small Boat, C105344, 27 August 1946
  • Her last known location was near Pearson Airfiled, Vancouver, WA
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 56 t.
  • Length 78'
  • Beam 20' 8"
  • Draft 5' 3"
  • Speed 41 kts.
  • Complement 17
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, two 21" torpedoes, two twin .50 cal. machine guns, one 37mm mount and one 20mm mount
  • Propulsion: Three 4,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    PT-659 130k . Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.
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