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PT-105, an 80' Elco boat, under way. A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II.It was small, fast, and inexpensive to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the war by ineffective torpedoes, limited armament, and comparatively fragile construction that limited some of the variants ...
USS Banaag (YT-104) lost due to enemy action in the Philippine Islands and stricken from the Navy List, 24 July 1942. USS Iona (YT-107) sunk by Japanese aircraft at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 2 January 1942. USS Mercedes (YT-108) destroyed to prevent capture at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 2 January 1942.
The seakeeping qualities of boats and ease of construction matched to the available Packard engines made a perfect combination. PT-109 was an 80 ft (24 m), 40-ton Elco motor torpedo boat (MTB), one of hundreds built by the firm between 1942 and 1945 in Bayonne, New Jersey.
40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph) Complement. 3 officers and 9 enlisted. Armament. 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. 4 × .50 caliber machine guns. PT boats c. World War II. PT-337 was a PT-103-class motor torpedo boat that was sunk in action during the Pacific Theater of World War II in Hansa Bay, New Guinea, on March 7, 1944.
PT-346, skippered by Lieutenant James Burk, USNR, was the rescue vessel in March and the victim in April. PT boat Squadron 25 took the brunt of both incidents, which resulted in 22 men killed, including Burk, and 28 wounded. On March 27, 1944, PT-346 and PT-354 rescued the survivors of PT-353 and PT-121, which had been mistakenly destroyed ...
Sunk by Japanese aircraft. PT-165: 23 May 1943: Sunk on board SS Stanvac Manila when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-17. PT-166: Off New Georgia, Solomon Islands 20 July 1943: Accidentally strafed and sunk by US B-25 bomber. PT-172: Off Vella Lavella, Solomons
Torpedo Alley. The Torpedo Alley, or Torpedo Junction, off North Carolina, is one of the graveyards of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the high number of attacks on Allied shipping by German U-boats in World War II. Almost 400 ships were sunk, mostly during the Second Happy Time in 1942, and over 5,000 people were killed, many of whom were ...
Torpedo boat. Torpedo boats attacking the Chilean central battery ship Almirante Cochrane during the 1891 Chilean Civil War. Decommissioned P 4-class torpedo boat of the Bangladesh Navy. Preserved at the Bangabandhu Military Museum. A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.