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PT-172

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ClassElco 80-foot class
TypeMotor torpedo boat (PT)
HullPT-172
FateNot 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.

A boat of this type, not a photograph of this hull
No photograph of PT-172. 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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