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PT-240



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - How - William
78' Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 15 October 1942 by Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA
  • Launched 21 November 1942
  • Completed 30 April 1943, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron NINETEEN (MTBRon 19) under the command of LCDR Russell H. Smith, USN
  • MTBRon 19, assigned to the South Pacific, had action at Vella Lavella, Treasury, and Green. The squadron was decommissioned and its boats were distributed to replenish other squadrons which had
    suffered operational losses
  • Transferred 19 April 1944 to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWENTY (MTBRon 20) under the command of LT Arthur H. Berndtson, USN
  • MTBRon 20, assigned to the South Pacific, had action at Treasury and Bougainville. Transferred to the Southwest Pacific in December 1944, the squadron saw action off Palawan, P.I. It also based for a
    time at Dreger Harbor, Aitape, and Mios Woendi, New Guinea, and at San Pedro Bay and Mindoro in the Philippines, but had no action from these bases
  • The "Jinx" was placed out of service 24 November 1945
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in May 1946 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 56 t.
  • Length 78'
  • Beam 20' 8"
  • Draft 5' 3"
  • Speed 41 kts.
  • Complement 17
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, two 21" torpedoes, two twin .50 cal. machine guns, one 37mm mount and one 20mm mount
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PT-240 92k . Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.
    PT-235 48k Mios Woendi, New Guinea
    Moored on other side of pier from PT-235    		 Dennis Buchanan
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-240
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