PT-134 was an 80-foot Elco from the Elco Works at Bayonne: about 56 tons, three Packard gasoline engines, roughly 40 knots, and a crew of about 14 to 17. She was placed in service on 17 September 1942 in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 7.
On the night of 24-25 October 1944 Lieutenant Commander Robert Leeson, the squadron commander, rode her. The boat captain was Lieutenant (junior grade) Edmund F. Wakelin. Leeson was not her captain. The section, with PT-132 and PT-137, covered the western side of the southern entrance, off Panaon. The boats were among 39 under Commander Selman S. Bowling.
She tracked radar targets at 10 miles and closed to 3,000 yards on what Leeson took for two battleships and three destroyers. A searchlight caught her. She fired 40 mm, 37 mm, and 20 mm while launching three torpedoes. Three underwater explosions jolted her. Nothing visible happened, and the column held course. She later fired her last torpedo at a lead destroyer and missed astern. When more large ships passed, probably Vice Admiral Kiyohide Shima's force, she had nothing left to shoot. Gunfire drove her off. She was not hit.
She transferred to Squadron 25 on 15 February 1945 and was stripped and destroyed on 9 November 1945.