The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 11, 2002, Image 7

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PT-109 boat confirmed
Wreckage has been missing for nearly 60 years
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -
The undersea explorer who dis-
covered the Titanic announced
Wednesday that he has found
I PT-109, the torpedo boat com
manded by John F. Kennedy
during World War II.
Robert Ballard said the
l wreck is in 1,200 feet of water
I in the South Pacific, near the
[Solomon Islands, where the
;boat went down in 1943 after
jbeing hit by a Japanese
(destroyer.
The Navy said that based on
he location and type of weapon-
y found, the wreck is probably
hat of the famous vessel.
Ballard said the wreck,
Which was found in May, will be
|eft where it is.
“We have an understanding
ith the Kennedy family as well
s others who lost loved ones —
here were two people lost from
he boat — that we will not dis-
urb the site and we will not dig
t up,” he said.
II Eventually, the site might
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$350/mo > pi annet | ne twork of underwater
museums accessible over the
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happens, given the technology
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PT-109 was rammed early
°ri the morning of Aug. 2,
esT95^ 1943. The destroyer was
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no..unfurm Kennedy’s 80-foot boat amid-
ship, slicing it in two. But
Ballard said it appears PT-109
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blow that sheared off only a
portion of the stern.
The 1 1 surviving crewmen
clung to the slowly sinking bow,
then swam to a small island.
Kennedy towed an injured crew
man to shore by swimming with
a strap from the man’s lifejacket
in his teeth.
The future president was
awarded the Navy and Marine
Corps Medal and a Purple
Heart. The episode was drama
tized in a 1963 movie.
Ballard, who has also
explored such shipwrecks as the
Bismarck, the Lusitania and the
Yorktown, searched the bottom
of the sea with a remotely oper
ated vehicle and found a loaded
torpedo tube and a few pieces of
gear jutting from the sand.
The torpedo and launching
tube are exact matches for
equipment used only on PT
boats until 1944, a Naval
Historical Center expert said.
“A check of Navy records
indicates that no other PT-type
vessels were lost in this loca
tion,” the Navy said in a state
ment. “This information com
bined with the physical evidence
suggests that this is likely the
wreck of the PT-109.”
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-
Mass., said Ballard and the
National Geographic Society
should be commended for the
research.
“Finding PT-109 is especial
ly meaningful to the members
of my family, but we also
believe it represents the story of
all the brave young men who
fought with such courage in the
South Pacific to ensure victory
during World War II,” Kennedy
said in a statement.
Kennedy’s PT Boat
found in Pacific
After almost 59 years of being
lost in the Pacific, a shipwreck
hunter found the World War II
patrol boat commanded by John
F. Kennedy.
Displacement — 38 tons
Length — 80 feet
Speeds-41 knots
Armament — Four 21 inch
torpedoes and one 20 mm, .50
cal gun
Crew — Accommodations for
three officers and 14 men
John F. Kennedy’s
PT-109 boat found
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