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PT-116

Class	Elco 80-foot class
Type	Motor torpedo boat (PT)
Hull	PT-116
Builder	Elco, Bayonne
Launched	1942-07-13
Commissioned	1942-07-30
Fate	Afloat. She was not sunk in action. On 11 November 1945 U.S. forces stripped her and destroyed her at Samar.
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.

A boat of this type, not a photograph of this hull — No photograph of PT-116 that can be published here. This is a U.S. Navy PT boat patrolling off New Guinea in 1943. It is not this hull. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

PT-116 was an 80-foot Elco motor torpedo boat, built at the Elco works in Bayonne. She was laid down on 7 April 1942, launched on 13 July, and placed in service on 30 July. She went to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 6. Men called her Rebel Raiders.

At dawn on 30 September 1943 she was one of three boats coming in from a night against barges near Ropa Point. The other two were PT-124 and PT-126. Three Corsairs came over them. Word had gone out to hold fire. One of the Corsairs fired. The boats shot it down. The officer and the two men lost that morning were on PT-126. She brought none of those names home as her own.

On 29 May 1944 Squadron 6 was broken up and she moved to Squadron 10. She was not lost in a fight. On 11 November 1945 U.S. forces stripped her and destroyed her at Samar.

The pictures on this page are the originals.