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The crew took Betsy on a fast tour of the harbor and made her an honorary member of the crew, complete with a certificate signed by all the crew. PT 105 became known among the squadron as the USS 'Betsy'. [citation needed] The vessel was placed out of service on 1 November 1945, and later stripped and scrapped at Samar, Philippines. [1]
On 13 August 1941, she was transferred to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One (MTBRON 1) under the command of Lt. William C. Specht and assigned to Pearl Harbor. [1] [2] During the attack on Pearl Harbor, PT-20 was moored at berth S-13 awaiting loading on the replenishment oiler USS Ramapo (AO-12) for MTBRON 1's assignment to the Philippines. [3]
Larger than earlier MTB or motor gun boat (MGB) designs, the Fairmile D was driven by four Packard 12-cylinder 1250 horsepower supercharged petrol engines and could achieve 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) at full load. The boat carried 5,200 gallons of 100 octane fuel for a range, at maximum continuous speed, of 506 nautical miles.
Initial armament was four torpedo tubes and two twin 12.7-millimetre (0.50 in) machine gun mounts, although the tubes were replaced by racks, and the gun armament was progressively upgraded as the war continued. Production batches were generally in multiples of 12 boats, as this was the size of a US Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron (MTBRon).
The Vosper 73 foot Motor Torpedo Boat was a mid-twentieth century British motor torpedo boat (MTB) designed by Vosper that served in the Royal Navy Coastal Forces during the Second World War. At 73 ft (22 m) long they were considered small boats compared to longer designs such as the Fairmile D .
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When excluding volatile food and energy costs, the so-called core PCE was down to 2.8% in November — compared with a peak of 5.6% in September 2022.