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Patrol torpedo boat PT-48 the last of the 77-foot Elco Naval Division, completed 15 September 1941; Patrol torpedo boat PT-459, 78-foot Higgins Industries, New Orleans, completed 23 March 1944. Past names: Mahogany Menace and Beachcomber IV. [5] Patrol torpedo boat PT-486, 80-foot Elco Naval Division, completed 25 November 1943, past name US ...
Pages in category "World War II patrol vessels of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 269 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
Her prototype boat was of a wooden hull construction. From this boat the Royal Norwegian Navy built a line of 20 Tjeld-class patrol boats. Starting on 1 January 1963, the US Navy took delivery of the first Båtbyggeri boats, with designation Nasty-class patrol boat. A total of 14 Nasty-class patrol boats were built by Båtbyggeri between 1963 ...
The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 83-foot patrol boats (also called cutters) were all built by Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York during World War II.The first 136 cutters were fitted with a tapered-roof Everdur silicon bronze wheelhouse but due to a growing scarcity of that metal during the war, the later units were fitted with a flat-roofed plywood wheelhouse. [4]
She is a Nasty-class patrol boat (PTF-3 to PTF 22) at 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) long. [3] PTF Boats replace the wooden World War II PT boats . The PTF-3 was armed with two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon , .50 caliber Browning machine gun and 81mm mortar "Piggyback".
Thirty-five submarine chasers (PC) were converted into amphibious landing control vessels during World War II and reclassified as Patrol Craft, Control after the war. Main article: List of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships § Patrol craft, control (PCC)
The American motor yacht Haida was built in Germany in 1929 for Max C. Fleischmann and later saw service in the United States Navy during World War II as patrol yacht USS Argus (PY-14) and USC&GS Pioneer. In 1946 she returned to her role as a private yacht under a sequence of names and owners, and after a further refit in 2016 is now Haida 1929.
USS Eagle 56 (PE-56) was a United States Navy World War I–era patrol boat that remained in service through World War II. On 23 April 1945, while towing targets for U.S. Navy bomber exercises off the coast of Maine, Eagle 56 was sunk by the German submarine U-853. Only 13 of the 62 crew survived.