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MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT

PT-108 "LITTLE DUCK"
Also known as: “Plywood Bastard” & “8 Boat”

CLASS: ELCO PT-103           TYPE:  Motor Torpedo Boat

BUILDER:  Elco Boat Works, Bayonne, New Jersey

ORIGIN:  United States

LAID DOWN:  2/27/42   LAUNCHED:  6/17/42   COMPLETED:  7/7/42

POWERPLANT (S):  3 engines @ 1,350 HP Packard liquid-cooled engines; 3 screws; 3 rudders; 3000 gallons 100 octane aviation fuel. Could accelerate from 8 to 40 knots in about eleven seconds.

DIMENSIONS:      Beam:   23 ft  8 in     Draft:  5 ft 3 in Length:  80  ft  

DISPLACEMENT:  38 tons

PERFORMANCE:   Maximum speed:  41-43 knots

ARMAMENT: Two twin .50 caliber Browning machine gun turrets; one located  on the   starboard side of the cockpit and one on the portside of the aft cabin, approximately amidships. A M3A1 37mm Anti-tank gun mounted on the bow. One 20mm anti-aircraft cannon mounted on the afterdeck. Four twenty-one inch diameter torpedoes, in launch tubes were mounted on each side, one amidships and one astern. The 37mm gun was the same as the one on the PT 109 . However, the gun had been removed from its carriage and installed on a fabricated mounting. Click on the following link to see the mounting,

CREW:  2 officers and 9 enlisted men (On later versions, number of crew was listed as 2 officers and 14 men.

Updated 10/5/2006