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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 ...
PT-109 armament in August 1943; a forward 37 mm antitank gun, aft 20 mm autocannon, two twin .50 caliber machine gun turrets and four torpedo tubes. The PT boat's principal offensive weapon was her torpedoes. She was fitted with four 21-inch (53 cm) torpedo tubes containing Mark 8 torpedoes. They weighed 3,150 pounds (1,430 kg) each, with 386 ...
PT-658 is a prime example of US Navy motor torpedo boat development during World War II. PT-658 was in the last group of four boats delivered from the 36-boat contract NObs-1680, October 1944 for PT-625 to PT-660. Delivered and accepted on July 31, 1945, she was fitted with all of the latest armaments and design modifications as a result of ...
PT-617 is a PT-103 -class ELCO motor torpedo boat. The hull was constructed of two layers of mahogany planking laid diagonally over laminated spruce, white oak, and mahogany frames, reinforced with longitudinal battens, secondary transverse frames, and clamps. A layer of fabric, impregnated with marine glue, was laid between the two layers of ...
Patrol torpedo boat PT-42. Patrol torpedo boat. PT-42. PT-42 at a fueling dock at Pearl Harbor, April 1944. YO-44 is on the opposite side of the pier. Three 1,500 hp (1,100 kW) Packard V12 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts. PT-42 was a PT-20 -class motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy that served during World War II .
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 ...
PT-30 was commissioned by the United States Navy and laid down on 7 March 1941 at the Elco Works of the Electric Launch Company (now Electric Boat Company) at their Bayonne, New Jersey shipyard; launched on 28 May 1941; and completed on 5 July 1941. [1] She was commissioned and attached to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two (MTBRon 2) under the ...
Patrol torpedo boat PT-796. Patrol torpedo boat. PT-796. / 41.70528°N 71.16333°W / 41.70528; -71.16333. PT-796 is a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans in 1945. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 as one of a very few surviving World War II PT boats. A "Higgins" boat, she is part of the ...