USS PT-524 was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy, carried on the rolls as PT-524. Her place in the wartime account is a patrol in Surigao Strait. On the night of 24-25 October 1944 she was one of the motor torpedo boats out on that water.
The patrol was a large one. Thirty-nine motor torpedo boats were on patrol in Surigao Strait that night, and PT-524 was one boat in that company.
That duty is how she enters the Battle of Surigao Strait. The battle is dated 25 October 1944, and she is placed in it with the motor torpedo boat patrol.
The night in the strait is the fact that stays with the hull. PT-524 is remembered as one of the motor torpedo boats on patrol in Surigao Strait while 24 October 1944 passed into 25 October, and as one of the boats in the motor torpedo boat patrol at the Battle of Surigao Strait.