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The small boat company provided regular coastal and island service to bases in the Aleutian and Pacific Islands to supply food and equipment transported by small coastal and inter-island vessels and water craft that were under 200 feet or under 1,000 gross tons of the following vessel types.
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 ...
This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types
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 Roussen class [1] is a seven-strong class of British-designed fast attack missile boats improved and customized for the Hellenic Navy, also known as Super Vita.The class is named after its lead ship, which in turn is named after Lt Nikolaos Roussen, a World War II submarines officer who was killed in the suppression of the Navy mutiny in April 1944.
ASPB on patrol during Operation Coronado IX, November 1967. The ASPB was approximately 50 feet (15 m) long, its hull was constructed of 7 ⁄ 32 inch (5.6 mm) steel, from the gunwale 2 inches (51 mm) up it was 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3.2 mm) steel, its superstructure was 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.4 mm) aluminum which provided protection against 57mm recoilless rifle rounds and armor-piercing bullets up to .50 ...
In 2002, the Swedish Navy ordered an additional 27 boats of a slightly different type, designated Stridsbåt 90 HS – where S refers to Skydd (protected) [2] as the Strb 90 HS is armoured and features CBRN protection (the whole boat can be over-pressurized) – intended for use in international peace-keeping operations. Apart from the addition ...
captured by Germany as TA26 September 1943, either sunk 15 June 1944 by US Navy PT boats or destroyed by sabotage 6 July 1944 Aretusa Regia Marina: Spica: 795 1 July 1938 decommissioned 1 August 1958 Ariel: 795 1 July 1938 sunk 12 October 1940 Ariete: Ariete: 745 5 August 1943 war reparation to Yugoslavia as Durmitor 30 April 1949, stricken 1 ...