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Topic: PT-61 Update, Stan Pienkowski’s current build |
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Lew Zee
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 Posted on: Jul 28, 2016 - 3:48pm
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Does anyone know the names of the CO, XO, and the crew of the PT-61 (as a gunboat) in late 1943 - early 1944?
Lew
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Jul 28, 2016 - 6:29pm
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Lew;
I will send you what I have when I get home.
Take care,
TED
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Jul 28, 2016 - 8:41pm
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Lew;
Here are all of them:
PT 61 Skippers and Exec's:
RON 4
ENS. John Clagett 2/19 -5/18/42 CO(Plankowner, accepted and picked up boat at ELCO).
ENS. James E. Miller 2/19 -5/18/42 EXEC (Plankowner)
LCDR Henry Farrow 5/18 - 6/15/42 CO
LT. Henry Robert Montgomery 5/18 - 5/24/42 EXEC
ENS Joseph C. Kernell 5/18 -6/24/42 CO
ENS James Brent Greene 5/18 -6/24/42 EXEC
While attached to RON 4 PT 61 was a training boat, so Skippers and Exec's and crews would rotate every other day, underway.
RON 2 transferred with crew to on May 7, 1942
RON 3(2) transferred with crew to on July 27, 1942
LT. Hugh M. Robinson 6/24 - 11/42 CO
ENS Joseph C. Kernell 6/24 - 11/42 EXEC
ENS Joseph C. Kernell 11/42- 2/18/42 CO
CMM Arthur Stuffert COB(Chief of the Boat)/EXEC 11/42-2/1/43
ENS. John F. "Jake" Kearny 2/1 - 2/18/43 EXEC
LT Allan H. Harris 2/17 - 3/29/43 CO
LT. Richard D. Mahan 2/17 - 3/29/43 EXEC
LT Richard D. Mahan 3/29 - 4/10/43 CO
LT Harold D. Ashman 4/6 - 4/10/43 EXEC
LTjg Joseph C. Kernell 4/26 - 8/10/ 43 CO
ENS Kenneth W. Prescott 4/26 - 8/10/43 EXEC
ENS V. Purton 5/16-5/19/43 3rd Officer
ENS Kenneth W. Prescott 8/10 - 9/1/43 CO
ENS William Clement Fisher 8/10 - 9/1/43 EXEC
ENS Joseph G. Atkinson 9/1/43 - 1/26/44 CO
ENS Kenneth W. Prescott 9/1 - 9/3/43 (sent to sickbay in Sept., Malaria left boat).
ENS William Clement Fisher 9/1/43 3rd Officer/ 9/3/43-1/26/44 EXEC
LTjg Bayard L. Teigan 1/24- 2/24/44 CO (signed and turned over 61 boat to Standard Landing Craft Unit 14, Commander Naval Base, New Georgia)
ENS Isaac J. Mitchell 1/26/ - 2/24/44 EXEC
Hope this helps, all info is from PT 61 Logbook pages.
Take care,
TED
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Lew Zee
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Posted on: Jul 28, 2016 - 9:59pm
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Thanks Ted for the list. My 1/20 scale operating PT-61 (gunboat) is finally nearing completion. I am working on the Bofors (scratch building both) and have the 3D printed 50's for the tubs. Will try to cast those to make the side 50's.
Also working on the figures. Got the CO, XO, and radio man done and still need to make the crew. Using 1/20 scale Tamiya racing crew figures well modified. Thought having the names would be cool.
Runs nic, but a little heavy in the water. I suspect the real 61 did that according to Ken's book.
Lew
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Jul 29, 2016 - 6:01am
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Lew;
Do you need names for gunboat crew also?
Take care,
TED
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Lew Zee
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Posted on: Jul 29, 2016 - 9:49am
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Ted,
That would be great too. When the model is completed I would like to list the names of the entire crew there as well as on a sign next to the model when I display it.
Lew
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Jul 29, 2016 - 3:35pm
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Lew;
These are crewmembers during the time the boat was a gunboat. As per the logbook modifications were complete at 1425 on 4 Oct 1943, but she had a number of engine issues and did not go north until 0835 27 Oct 1943 to Lever Harbor, traveling with PT 154, 156, 159, 161, and 162.
PT 61 Atkinson to Teigan Crew: reported/detached
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Lew Zee
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Posted on: Aug 11, 2016 - 9:55pm
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Ted,
Do you or anyone else know what color the PT-61 (and I guess 59 & 60) were painted as gunboats? I heard of a mist green or something like that. I would like to match that color, perhaps to the Fed standard 595 or SAE color chart.
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Will Day
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Posted on: Aug 11, 2016 - 10:39pm
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Uh, oh.
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Aug 12, 2016 - 6:18am
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Lew;
I hope you received my entire crew list, as I now see it doesn't appear above. if not PM me and I will email it directly to you. All the Gunboats were painted Navy Green NG-5(http://www.steelnavy.com/images/chips/USNchip2.jpg)
I personally use Model Master Dark Green FS 34079as base coat mixed with Medium Green FS 34102 to lighten it up a little and weather from there.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
TED
P.S. that "mist green" was actually a "homemade" mixture of green and blue gray, that Joe Kernell and Ken Prescott crew whipped up after bumming paint from the army. Ken said the boat when finished would actually change color depending on the sunlight. So, in 1943, they unknowingly did their own experiment with color shifting paint(known today as Chameleon Paint in the Tuner car world). Wayne Traxel painted his remote control PT 48 this color, as per Ken's mixture formula, and he did say the model appeared to change color in different amounts of sunlight
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