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PT-619



Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Charlie - Easy


PT-619 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.
80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Built by Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Laid down, 09 April 1945
  • Launched, 10 August 1945
  • Completed, 01 October 1945
  • Placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FORTY TWO (PTRon 42) under the command of Lt. Comdr. James A. Danver, USNR
  • PTRon 42 was the only squadron commissioned after the cessation of hostilities. Although assigned to the Pacific Fleet, it was never shipped to the Pacific
  • Transferred 26 January 1946 to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FOUR (PTRon 4) under the command of LCDR John K. Williams, USNR
  • The "Soko Devil" was placed out of service 28 January 1946
  • PTRon 4 was the training squadron, based at the MTB Squadrons Training Center, Melville, R.I. It was the largest squadron, having a peak of 28 boats in service at one time. When the training center was decommissioned on 15
    April 1946, PTRon 4 was assigned to the Operational Development Force, and based at Solomons, MD. It was the last squadron to be decommissioned, and its boats, PT's 613, 616, 619, and 620, which remained in service
    under the Operational Development Force, were the last World War II PT's in service in the Navy
  • Transferred to South Korea at Sasebo, Japan, renamed Olbbaemi (PT 26), 24 January 1952
  • Sold outright to Korea for scrapping, 1963
  • Donated to PT Boats, Inc., Germantown, TN, with the efforts of Vice Admiral Bulkeley, 1968
  • Carried up the Missisippi River by Seattle (AOE-3), November 1969
  • Found to be beyond restoration and repair; cannibalized to assist in restoration of PT 617
  • Remains destroyed by burning, circa December 1980

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 56 t.
  • Length 80'
  • Beam 20' 8"
  • Draft 5'
  • Speed 41 kts.
  • Complement 17
  • Armament: One 40mm, four 21" torpedoes, one 37mm deck gun and two twin .50 cal. Browning machine guns
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PT-619
    120561902    		 109k PT-619 moored on Newtown Creek, New York, NY, postwar (probably circa October 1945 when she was on display for Navy Day).
    National PT Boat Memorial and Museum    		 Dave Wright
    PT-613, 616, 619 & 620
    120561301    		 294k Personnel of ROK Navy stand at attention on board PT boat while the Korean national anthem is played. Four patrol torpedo boats were added to ROK Navy when Vice Admiral Won Il Sohn, ROKN, accepted the vessels from U.S. Naval authorities in Sasebo, Japan. The transfer was made by Rear Admiral George C. Dyer, USN.
    National Archives photo 80-G-438008    		 Joe Radigan
    PT-619
    120561903    		 139k The hulk of ex-PT-619 at New Orleans, summer 1978. Note her Korean name is still visible on her stern.
    Photo courtesy Al Ross    		 Dave Wright
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-619
    Additional Resources and Websites of Interest
    Footage of PT-619 in Korean service, 1952
    thanks to Joe Reese
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