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Following this Westermoen received orders from the Royal Norwegian Navy (for whom they were known as the Tjeld class), and from the navies of the United States, (who called them the Nasty class), Greece and West Germany. Six vessels were also built in the United States under licence (some parts, such as the keel and stem being imported).
United States Navy United States Marine Corps: Built: 1962–1968: In commission: 1962–1981: Completed: 20: General characteristics [1] Type: Patrol boat: Displacement: 80 long tons (81 t) Length: 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) Beam: 24 ft 7 in (7.49 m) Draft: 3 ft 10 in (1.17 m) Propulsion: 2 × Napier Deltic Turboblown diesel engines, 6,200 bhp ...
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three (MTBRon 3) was a United States Navy squadron based at Naval Base Cavite, Cavite, Philippines, from September 1941 to December 1941. It was commanded by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and made up of six motor torpedo boats: PT-31, PT-32, PT-33, PT-34, PT-35, and PT-41, the last as the squadron flagship.
The XPT-3 became the XPT-5 when fitted with the Curtiss Challenger R-600 two-row six-cylinder radial engine, but was soon converted to PT-3 standard. [2] The PT-3 aircraft were superseded by the Boeing PT-13 Stearman starting in 1937, but a number were still operational with the Spartan Flying School in Tulsa Oklahoma into the middle of World ...
Designated WTB-1 (for "Wooden Torpedo Boat"), she was purchased under the Act of 3 March 1887 for use as a torpedo boat for experimental purposes and commissioned in July 1887. She measured 94 ft overall (88 ft 6in waterline) x 11 ft 6in x 3 ft, and had a 1-shaft vertical compound engine of 359 ihp, achieving 18.2 knots.
[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] All 12 boats of the squadron fired on the attacking Japanese aircraft with one, PT-23 , credited with shooting down two Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers .
The Navajo class is a class of Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ships for the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy. They were ordered in 2017 as the planned replacement for the aging Safeguard -class rescue and salvage ships and Powhatan -class tugboats .
3 x .50 caliber machine guns, 2 x 21" torpedo tubes, 2 x Mark 14 torpedoes, 4 depth charges Q-111 Luzon was a motor torpedo boat of the United States Army during World War II as part of the Offshore Patrol based at Manila .