Patrol torpedo boat PT-490

PT-490 was a PT-20-class motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy that served during World War II.

History
United States of America
Name: PT-490
Builder: Electric Boat Company
Laid down: 7 August 1943
Launched: 29 October 1943
Sponsored by: United States Navy
Completed: 29 November 1943
Commissioned: 2 December 1943
Nickname(s): "Little Butch"
Fate: sold, May 1946
Notes:
General characteristics
Class and type: Patrol torpedo boat
Tonnage: 40 gross register tons
Length: 77 feet o/a
Beam: 19 feet 11 inches
Height: 4 feet 6 inches
Propulsion: Three 1,500 hp Packard V12 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
Armament: Two twin .50 caliber Browning M2 machine guns; Two .303 caliber Lewis machine guns; 2 21" torpedo tubes; Four torpedoes
Service record

History

PT-490 was authorized by the United States Navy and laid down on 7 August 1943 at the Elco Works of the Electric Launch Company (now Electric Boat Company) at their Bayonne, New Jersey shipyard; launched on 29 October 1943; and completed on 29 November 1943.[1] On 2 December 1943, she was commissioned and attached to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 33 (MTBRon 33) under the command of Lt. JG John M. McElfresh and assigned to patrol in the Southwest Pacific.[1] On 12 December 1944, while patrolling off the coast of Leyte Island with PT-492, they spotted and sunk the destroyer Uzuki 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Cebu at 11°03′N 124°23′E.[2]

She survived the war. In May 1946, she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission of the United States State Department and sold.[1] Her fate is unknown.[1]

References
  1. Radigan, Joseph M. "Motor Torpedo Boat Photo Archive PT-490". NavSource - Naval Source History. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  2. Nevitt, Allyn D. (1997). "The TA Operations to Leyte, Part III". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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