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

USN · PT

PT-117

Sunk

Elco 80-foot torpedo boat of Squadron 6. Men called her Munda Morn. On 29 August 1942 she lay alongside PT-124 and Saufley in New York. On 1 August 1943 Japanese aircraft destroyed her in Rendova harbor and she was beached with a hole in her bow. She was not in Blackett Strait that night.

Class	Elco 80-foot class
Type	Motor torpedo boat (PT)
Hull	PT-117
Builder	Elco, Bayonne
Launched	1942-07-15
Commissioned	1942-08-04
Fate	Sunk. On 1 August 1943 Japanese aircraft destroyed her in Rendova harbor. She was beached with a hole in her bow. She was at the base that day, not out in the 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-117 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.

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