Patrol torpedo boat PT-143
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PT-143 was a PT-103-class motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy that served during World War II.
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Name | PT-143 |
Builder | Electric Launch Company, Bayonne, New Jersey |
Laid down | 13 July 1942 |
Launched | 25 September 1942 |
Completed | 13 October 1942 |
Decommissioned | 28 October 1945 |
Nickname(s) | "Ring Dang Doo" |
Fate | intentionally destroyed due to obsolescence |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Elco 80-foot PT boat |
Displacement | 56 long tons (57 t) |
Length | 80 ft (24 m) |
Beam | 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) |
Draft | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
Propulsion | 3 × 1,500 shp (1,119 kW) Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts |
Speed | 41 knots (76 km/h; 47 mph) |
Complement | 17 (3 officers, 14 enlisted) |
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