Patrol torpedo boat PT-41

History
United States Navy
Name	PT-41
Builder	Electric Launch Company, Bayonne, New Jersey
Laid down	30 April 1941
Launched	8 July 1941
Completed	23 July 1941
Fate	Destroyed to prevent capture, 15 April 1942
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Elco 77-foot PT boat
Displacement	40 long tons (41 t)
Length	77 ft (23 m)
Beam	19 ft 11 in (6.07 m)
Draft	4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
Propulsion	3 × 1,500 shp (1,119 kW) Packard V12 M2500 gasoline engines, 3 shafts
Speed	41 knots (76 km/h; 47 mph)
Complement	15
Armament	4 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedoes 2 × twin .50 cal. M2 Browning machine guns in Dewandre turrets 2 × .303 cal. Lewis guns
Service record
Part of:	MTB Squadron 1 (July–August 1941) MTB Squadron 3 (Flagship – August 1941 – April 1942)
Operations:	Philippines campaign (1941–1942)

Patrol torpedo boat PT-41 was a PT-20-class motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy, built by the Electric Launch Company of Bayonne, New Jersey. The boat was laid down as Motor Boat Submarine Chaser PTC-21, but was reclassified as PT-41 prior to its launch on 8 July 1941, and was completed on 23 July 1941.^[1] It was used to evacuate General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor at the beginning of the war in the Pacific in World War II.