USN · PT
PT-123
Photos and infoElco 80-foot torpedo boat of Squadron 6. R. L. Richards had her. On 14 January 1943 he claimed a hit between Savo and Cape Esperance. Japanese records show no damage that night. On 1 February a floatplane bombed her south of Savo before he fired, and she burned. The torpedoes fired at Makigumo that night were from PT-124, and they missed. That sinking is not this boat's.
| Class | Elco 80-foot class |
|---|---|
| Type | Motor torpedo boat (PT) |
| Hull | PT-123 |
| Builder | Elco, Bayonne |
| Launched | 1942-07-31 |
| Commissioned | 1942-08-18 |
| Fate | Sunk. On 1 February 1943 a Japanese floatplane bombed her south of Savo and she burned. One enlisted man was killed and three were missing. She did not fire at Makigumo. Yugumo scuttled that destroyer after a mine. |
| Armament (class) | Eighty-foot motor torpedo boat. A gun forward and torpedo tubes along the deck. |
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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-123 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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