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PT-494

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TypeMotor torpedo boat (PT)
HullPT-494
FateNot recorded. One of the motor torpedo boats on patrol in Surigao Strait on the night of 24-25 October 1944.

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

A boat of this type, not a photograph of this hull
No photograph of PT-494. 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.

USS PT-494 was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy. On the night of 24–25 October 1944 she was on patrol in Surigao Strait. Thirty-nine motor torpedo boats were out that night, and PT-494 was one of them.

That patrol carried her into the Battle of Surigao Strait on 25 October 1944. She went into the action with the motor torpedo boat patrol.

Through the hours of 24–25 October she remained with those boats in the strait, her part in the battle the patrol itself on the night the action was fought.

The pictures on this page are the originals.