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Detail Specifications For Building Motor Torpedo Boats, March 1944, provides the builders specifications for PT 565-624. Numerous details about PT Boats appear in the manual that provide insight to both the technology and the life aboard PT Boats.
From a Packard Engine 4M-2500 Manual, Specifications and Performance Propellers Manufacturer: Federal Mogul Equi-Poise. The following pitch and diameter information is based on PT historian Andy Small's research.
Depth measurements are from the plans horizontal baseline which is slightly below the lowest part of the planked hull. The baseline is parallel to the waterline. Measurements along the keel are given in both frame locations and stations. More about frames and stations can be found on the Hull component page.
special specifications for machinery for motor torpedo boats pt 565-624 (80-foot) for the united states navy
PT-593 Tehnical overview of a 80ft ELCO PT-Boat, Side elevation and deck plans from “Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Vol. II” by John Lambert and Al Ross, via Robert Hurst on navsrource. Specs. Displacement: 40 tons, Full load. Dimensions: 24.38 m long, 6.30 m wide, 1.60 m draft. Machinery: 3 shafts gasoline engines 1050 hp. Top ...
This provides the builders specifications for PT 565-624. Numerous details about PT Boats appear in the manual that provide insight to both the technology and the life aboard PT Boats. 0.50-Inch Machine Gun Mounts, Mark 17 Mods. 1 and 2 , 1943, covers the manually operated 50 cal turret.
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 ...
This is a resource site by Jeff Davidson for the building details of an Elco 80' World War II Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) / Patrol Torpedo (PT) boat with leanings towards a 109 to 138 boat operating in the Pacific theater.
We carry a selection of PT Boats plans from Coastal Forces. These plans are large scale and very detailed. If you want to build a model of a PT Boat, then let us recommend one of these plans. These plans are drawn by Mr. Al Ross and all contain a Outboard Profile, Deck and Hull Lines.
The best freely available reference for hull fittings is the Elco Parts Catalog which can be downloaded from this page: http://www.ptboatforum.com/PT_Boat_Documents.html. Diagrams and images of the fittings can be found within.