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A boat of this type, not a photograph of this hull

USN · PT

Unknown

Elco 80-foot motor torpedo boat. Fired four torpedoes and went home. Rendova patrol, night of 1–2 August 1943.

ClassElco 80-foot class
TypeMotor torpedo boat (PT)
HullPT-103
FateNot recorded. One of the fifteen boats on the Rendova patrol of 1–2 August 1943, Blackett Strait.
Armament (class)Eighty-foot motor torpedo boat. A gun forward and torpedo tubes along the deck.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

No photograph of PT-103. This is a U.S. Navy PT boat patrolling off New Guinea in 1943, the same kind of boat. It is not this hull. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Loss of PT-109

1943-08-02 · fired four torpedoes and went home