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PT-32

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TypeMotor torpedo boat (PT)
HullPT-32
BuilderElco, Bayonne
Commissioned1941-07-10
FateSunk. 13 March 1942 at Tagauayan Island, by the deck gun of the submarine Permit. Two of her three engines were out, and she could not go on to Mindanao. Her passengers had already been put on the other boats.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Elco 77-foot motor torpedo boat. On the night of 11 March 1942 she left with the boats taking MacArthur off Corregidor. She could not go on from Tagauayan. Permit sank her there on 13 March.

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