USN · PT
PT-124
Photos and infoElco 80-foot torpedo boat of Squadron 6, later Squadron 10. Men called her Hogan's Goat, and later Who Me. On 1 February 1943 Clark W. Faulkner fired at Makigumo south of Savo. The torpedoes missed, and Yugumo scuttled that destroyer after a mine. The sinking is not this boat's. She was damaged off Meresu Cove on 4 September 1943. U.S. forces stripped her and burned her at Samar on 11 November 1945.
| Class | Elco 80-foot class |
|---|---|
| Type | Motor torpedo boat (PT) |
| Hull | PT-124 |
| Builder | Elco, Bayonne |
| Launched | 1942-08-03 |
| Commissioned | 1942-08-20 |
| Fate | Afloat. She was not sunk in action. On 1 February 1943, south of Savo, she fired at Makigumo and the torpedoes missed. Yugumo scuttled that destroyer after a mine. On 11 November 1945 U.S. forces stripped her and burned her at Samar. |
| 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-124 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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