USN · PT
PT-126
Photos and infoElco 80-foot torpedo boat of Squadron 6, later Squadron 9. Men called her String Rabbit Shirt, then Acey Deucy, and later Miss Gwin. On 30 September 1943 Craig C. Smith had her near Ropa Point with PT-124 and PT-116. A Corsair strafed her. John F. Daley, Thomas M. Ross, and Bertis I. Paul were the men lost, and her gunner shot the plane down. On 27 May 1945 she fired two torpedoes into Sandakan Harbor. Nothing there is credited to her as a sinking. U.S. forces stripped her and destroyed her off Samar on 24 November 1945.
| Class | Elco 80-foot class |
|---|---|
| Type | Motor torpedo boat (PT) |
| Hull | PT-126 |
| Builder | Elco, Bayonne |
| Launched | 1942-08-10 |
| Commissioned | 1942-08-27 |
| Fate | Afloat. She was not sunk in action. On 30 September 1943 a Corsair strafed her near Ropa Point and an officer and two men were lost. On 24 November 1945 U.S. forces stripped her and destroyed her off Samar. She was struck on 28 November 1945. |
| 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-126 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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