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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 ...
Motor torpedo boat PT-658 is a PT-625-class Higgins 78-foot (24 m) PT boat, built for the United States Navy during World War II. PT-658 is a prime example of US Navy motor torpedo boat development during World War II. PT-658 was in the last group of four boats delivered from the 36-boat contract NObs-1680, October 1944 for PT-625 to PT-660 ...
Following World War II the US Navy had little use for fast attack craft, and most of her PT boats were disposed of shortly after VJ Day.With the involvement in the Vietnam War the Navy saw a renewed need for small combatant craft for "brown water" operations, and they approached the Norwegian Westermoen company, which had built a prototype fast attack boat, the Nasty, and was currently ...
PT-796 is a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans in 1945. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 as one of a very few surviving World War II PT boats. A "Higgins" boat , she is part of the collection of the PT Boat Museum , which itself is part of the Battleship Cove museum in Fall River, Massachusetts .
PT-59 was redesignated as a "Small Boat" and renumbered C102583 on 14 October 1944, and along with ex-PT-47, used briefly as a crash rescue boat at NAS Norfolk, before being transferred to the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 December 1944 to serve as a test subject for dehydration tests. Surveyed on 21 March 1947, she was then stricken and sold.
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
PT-105 was a PT boat of the United States Navy during World War II. The 80-foot (24 m) motor torpedo boat was built by the Elco Motor Yacht Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, in early 1942, and served until the end of the war.
The squadron made the 1,385 mile trip under their own power, then the longest made by PT boats to date [3] refueling at Necker Island, French Frigate Shoals, and Lisianski Island. [5] 11 of the 12 PT boats of MTBRON 1 made it to Midway (PT-23 had broken a crankshaft en route and was forced to return to Pearl Harbor).