USS PT-326 was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy, known by the hull number PT-326. On the night of 24–25 October 1944 she was on patrol in Surigao Strait. She was one of the motor torpedo boats the Navy had out in the strait through those hours.
The patrol that night was made up of thirty-nine boats. PT-326 was one of the thirty-nine, sharing the strait with the rest of the motor torpedo boat force on that duty.
That patrol was her part in the Battle of Surigao Strait. The battle is dated 25 October 1944, and her place in it was with the motor torpedo boats on patrol.
The night running from 24 October into 25 October and the battle of 25 October are one stretch of service for this boat. PT-326 spent those hours in Surigao Strait as part of the motor torpedo boat patrol.