Category:PT-489 (ship, 1943)

• The USS PT-489 is a motor torpedo boat of the ELCO 80' class

Ship[edit]

• Built by: Electric Launch Company Ltd. (Elco), (Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
• Laid down: 5 Aug 1943
• Launched: 27 Oct 1943
• Commissioned: 26 Nov 1943
• Displacement 56 t.
• Length 80'
• Beam 20' 8"
• Draft 5'
• Speed 41 kts.
• Complement 17
• Armament: One 40mm mount, four 21" Torpedoes and two twin .50 cal. machine guns
• Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.

History[edit]

• Placed in service: 2 December 1943 and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron THIRTY THREE (PTRon 33) under the command of Lt. A. Murray Preston, USNR

PTRon 33, assigned to the Southwest Pacific, had action at Aitape, New Guinea; Morotai in the Halmaheras; and San Pedro Bay and Panay in the Philippines. It also based for a time at Dreger Harbor and Mios Woendi, New Guinea, but had no action from these bases. The "Eight Ball" was placed out of service 24 October 1945 and sold in May 1946