Patrol torpedo boat PT-346
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PT-346 was an 80 ft Electric Launch Company (Elco) motor torpedo boat which suffered the worst PT-boat friendly-fire casualties of World War II, with nine men killed and nine wounded by airstrike.
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PT-105, an 80' Elco boat similar to PT-346 | |
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United States | |
Name | PT-346 |
Builder | Electric Launch Company (Elco), Bayonne, New Jersey USA |
Laid down | March 13, 1943 |
Launched | May 21, 1943 |
Commissioned | June 10, 1943 |
Fate | Destroyed by friendly fire, April 29, 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 51 BRT |
Length | 80 ft |
Beam | 23 ft |
Draft | 5 ft |
Propulsion | 3 engines, 3 propellors |
Speed | 43 knots |
Complement | 11 men |
Armament | 2x20mm guns; 4 Machine guns; 4x21" torpedo tubes |
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