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PT-67

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TypeMotor torpedo boat (PT)
HullPT-67
FateNot recorded. Attacked the Bismarck Sea wrecks after dark on 3-4 March 1943.

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-67. 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-67 was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy. She took part in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, dated 2 March 1943. In that battle she attacked the wrecks after dark.

She made that attack on the night of 3–4 March 1943. After dark, PT-67 went in against the wrecks in the Bismarck Sea.

Aircraft carried out the Allied attack that sank the convoy. The motor torpedo boats came in after dark, and PT-67 was with them.

In the opening days of March 1943, PT-67 was in the Bismarck Sea after the convoy had been sunk from the air. Her work was the night attack on the wrecks.

The pictures on this page are the originals.