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| caption=

!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy  no-repeat scroll top left;"|PT-109

| flag=US Naval Jack 48 stars.png

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| flag-caption=

| owner=

!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:US Naval Jack 48 stars.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]

| built=

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| authorized=March 4, 1942

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| keellaid=

| Laid down:

| launched=June 20, 1942

| 4 March 1942

| commissioned=July 10, 1942

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| retired=

| status=Sunk by ramming; August 1, 1943  

| 20 June 1942

| type=

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| displ=

| length=80 ft

| 10 July 1942

| beam=20 ft 6 in

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| draft=

| speed=41 knots

| Sunk by ramming; 1 August 1943

| test=

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| armament=Four 21" torpedo tubes<br>Two 20mm guns<br>Four .50-cal machine guns  

! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics

| aircraft=

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| 80&nbsp;ft  

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| 20&nbsp;ft 6 in  

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| 41 knots

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| Four 21" torpedo tubes; two 20mm guns; four .50-cal machine guns

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'''Motor Torpedo Boat 109''' (PT-109) was one of 80 vessels built by the Elco Works Naval Division of the Electric Boat Company in Bayonne, New Jersey, and famous as the vessel commanded by then-Lieutenant (JG) [[John F. Kennedy]] in the Solomons during [[World War II]].  

'''Motor Torpedo Boat 109''' (PT-109) was one of 80 vessels built by the Elco Works Naval Division of the Electric Boat Company in Bayonne, New Jersey, and famous as the vessel commanded by then-Lieutenant (JG) [[John F. Kennedy]] in the Solomons during [[World War II]].