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| USN PT-Boat Elco 80' 56 Tons 80' x 20' 8" x 5' 1 x 40mm 2 x Twin 50 cal MG 4 x 21" Torpedoes   Mydans March 1945 |
Ship History Built by Electric Boat Company (Elco) in Bayonne, NJ. Laid down May 1, 1943 as 80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat. Launched July 13, 1943 as PT-74. Completed August 6, 1943 and placed into service with the U.S. Navy (USN). Wartime History Assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 27 (MTBS-27) in the South Pacific (SoPAC). Nicknamed "Torpedo Truk". PT-374 operated from Stirling PT Boat Base (Treasury Base) and Green Island PT Boat Base (Nissan). On May 5, 1944 under the command of Ens. D. A. Boyd with PT-357 under the command of Lt(jg) W. J. Mullen Green Island PT Boat Base responded to a call for assistance Lt. Jonathan S. Raymond, Jr. who had made a distress call from PT-247 when hit by gunfire and caught fire off Rantan Island off southeast Bougainville. The other two PT boats in the patrol, PT-245 and PT-250 rescued the crew but could not find Lt. Raymond and searched for 4 1/2 hours with a PBY Catalina dropping flares to illuminate the area and bombs to suppress gunfire. and the search was abandoned and returned May 6, 1944. Afterwards, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 27 (MTBS-27) was temporarily assigned to the 3rd Fleet and operated in Palau and the Mariana Islands during October 1944 until December 1944. During December 1944, transfered to the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) and operated from San Pedro Bay off Leyte in the Philippines. Next, operates from Subic Bay off Luzon. During March 1945, conducts operations in Manila Bay to clear Japanese from shipwrecks and photographed by Carl Mydans from LIFE Magazine. Later, operates from Balikpapan on Borneo until the end of the Pacific War then returned to the Philippines. Postwar On October 19, 1945 placed out of service. During May 1946 transfered to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission and offered for sale. Ultimate fate unknown. References At Close Quarters PT Boats in the United States Navy (1962) pages 159-161 (Rantan Island May 1944), 422-423 (Manila Bay), 473 (PT 374) NavSource PT-374 Contribute
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