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A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century. The motor in the designation originally referred to their use of petrol engines, typically marinised aircraft engines or their derivatives, which distinguished them from other naval craft of the era, including other torpedo boats, that used steam turbines or ...
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 ...
The Test were done by the first two Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons one and two. [3] [4] With the new boats a new base was built, to train the new Squadrons at Melville, Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay, the Melville Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center. [5] Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 4 was based at the Training Center to train the new ...
On November 8, 1940, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two duty was to test new PT boats after the PT Boat design competition. [4] A Plywood Derby was held to see which PT boat design was the best. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two did testing in March 1941 in a boat run from Key West to New York. During the trip there was heavy weather with 8-to-10 ...
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One (MTBRon 1) was a World War II United States Navy PT boat squadron based at Naval Base Hawaii's Pearl Harbor PT Boat Base on 7 December 1941 during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. It was commanded by Lieutenant Lt. Comdr. William C. Specht and made up of 12 PT boats.
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 .
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 G-5 was a Soviet motor torpedo boat design built before and during World War II.Approximately 300 were built, of which 73 were lost during the war. Four were exported to the Spanish Republican Navy during the Spanish Civil War and others were transferred to North Korea after the war.