USN · PT
PT-171
Photos and infoElco 80-foot motor torpedo boat. Off Gatere; fired four torpedoes and went home; with PT-157 on the rescue. Rendova patrol, night of 1–2 August 1943.
| Class | Elco 80-foot class |
|---|---|
| Type | Motor torpedo boat (PT) |
| Hull | PT-171 |
| Fate | Not recorded. One of the fifteen boats on the Rendova patrol of 1–2 August 1943, Blackett Strait. |
| Armament (class) | Eighty-foot motor torpedo boat. A gun forward and torpedo tubes along the deck. |
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-171. 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.
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Loss of PT-109
1943-08-02 · off Gatere; fired four torpedoes and went home; with PT-157 on the rescue
