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PT-526

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TypeMotor torpedo boat (PT)
HullPT-526
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-526. 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-526 was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy, carried on the rolls as PT-526. She enters the wartime account on the night of 24-25 October 1944, when motor torpedo boats were on patrol in Surigao Strait. Thirty-nine boats made up that patrol, and PT-526 was one of them.

The patrol was part of the Battle of Surigao Strait on 25 October 1944. In that battle she is placed with the motor torpedo boat patrol, at sea in the strait through the night that joined the two dates.

The note that follows her name returns to the same duty. She was one of the motor torpedo boats on patrol in Surigao Strait on the night of 24-25 October 1944.

PT-526 stands in that company as a United States Navy motor torpedo boat on the Surigao Strait patrol, in the Battle of Surigao Strait of 25 October 1944.

The pictures on this page are the originals.