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PT-132

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TypeMotor torpedo boat (PT)
HullPT-132
FateNot recorded. One of the motor torpedo boats on patrol in Surigao Strait on the night of 24-25 October 1944.

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-132. 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-132 was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy, carried under the hull number PT-132.

On the night of 24–25 October 1944 she was one of the motor torpedo boats on patrol in Surigao Strait. Thirty-nine boats were out on that patrol, and PT-132 was among them.

That patrol was part of the Battle of Surigao Strait on 25 October 1944. Her place in the battle was with the motor torpedo boat patrol in the strait.

The service attached to her name is that night’s work: a motor torpedo boat on station in Surigao Strait with the boats of the patrol while the battle of 25 October 1944 was fought.

The pictures on this page are the originals.