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PT-121

Type	Motor torpedo boat (PT)
Hull	PT-121
Fate	Not recorded. Attacked the Bismarck Sea wrecks after dark on 3-4 March 1943.

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

A boat of this type, not a photograph of this hull — No photograph of PT-121. 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.

USS PT-121 was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy, also known by the number PT-121. Her recorded fight is the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, dated from 2 March 1943. Allied aircraft carried out the attack that sank the convoy.

The torpedo boats came in after dark. On the night of 3–4 March 1943, PT-121 attacked the wrecks left in the Bismarck Sea.

That night action is the work set down for her. Aircraft had sunk the convoy, and the boats went in after dark against the wrecks.

The pictures on this page are the originals.