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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 ...
M2HB .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine gun (s) M240B 7.62 mm machine gun (s) The Mark VI is a class of patrol boat for the United States Navy, designed to patrol riverine and littoral waters. The first two Mark VI boats were delivered to Coastal Riverine Group TWO in September 2015. Two boats were forward deployed to Bahrain in April 2016, with ...
USS PC-457, sunk in collision 14 August 1941. USS PC-458, later PYc-49. USS PC-459, later PY-18. USS PC-460, later PYc-50. USS PC-509, later PYc-51. USS PC-510, later YP-105. USS PC-523, later YP-77. The following submarine chasers were 173/174 feet long and used the PC designation. The large missing sections of these numbers for the most part ...
A British World War II Vosper 73-ft. motor torpedo boat PT-105, an 80-ft. Elco U.S. Navy PT boat in World War II The 114-ft. diesel-powered German E-boats were considerably larger than most British and American motor torpedo boats. Before World War I steam torpedo boats which were larger and more heavily armed than hitherto were being used.
A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement. There are many designs for patrol boats, and they generally range in size. They may be operated by a nation's navy, coast guard, police, or customs, and ...
Fast attack craft. A fast attack craft (FAC), also referred to as a PTG or a PCG, [1] is a small, fast, agile, offensive, often affordable warship armed with anti-ship missiles, gun or torpedoes. FACs are usually operated in close proximity to land as they lack both the seakeeping and all-round defensive capabilities to survive in blue water.
The Cyclone-class patrol ships are a class of coastal patrol boats, formerly in service with the United States Navy. Most of these ships, named for weather phenomenae, were launched between 1992 and 1994. The primary mission of these ships is coastal patrol and interdiction surveillance, an important aspect of littoral operations outlined in ...
0–9. Patrol torpedo boat PT-20; Patrol torpedo boat PT-29; Patrol torpedo boat PT-30; Patrol torpedo boat PT-34; Patrol torpedo boat PT-37; Patrol torpedo boat PT-41