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Despite the recent loss of two boats and two crewmen from a Japanese air attack on 1 August, the skippers of PT-109 and 14 other boats met with Commander Thomas G. Warfield to discuss the details of a mission to head north through a cut in the reefs known as Ferguson Passage, to Blackett Strait between Gizo and Kolombongara Islands to block 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 ...
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 ...
The US Navy imported some British MTBs and developed prototypes of their own. Production patrol torpedo boat (PT boat) models were built from March 1942 onwards by a number of manufacturers, including Higgins Industries of New Orleans. Initial armament was four torpedo tubes and two twin 12.7-millimetre (0.50 in) machine gun mounts, although ...
PT-105 was commissioned in June 1942, as part of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 5, [1] under the command of Cdr. Henry Farrow. [2] From September 1942 until early in 1943 she served on the Panama Sea Frontier, when she was transferred to the Solomon Islands.
Patrol torpedo boat PT-41 was a PT-20-class motor torpedo boat of the United States Navy, built by the Electric Launch Company of Bayonne, New Jersey.The boat was laid down as Motor Boat Submarine Chaser PTC-21, but was reclassified as PT-41 prior to its launch on 8 July 1941, and was completed on 23 July 1941. [1]
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