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 …

2022年11月28日 · During WW2, the US suddenly had the need for a fleet of small attack vessels, the PT-Boats, which gained fame in the Pacific. They were mostly wooden-built, by Elco, …

Two basic and distinctly different types of PT Boats were built for combat with the predominant PT, the 80-foot long "Elco" boat, and the slightly smaller 78-foot long "Higgins” boat. By the …

2013年5月1日 · During World War II the Elco Naval Division of the Electric Boat Co., in Bayonne, N.J., built nearly 400 patrol torpedo, or PT, boats for the U.S. Navy. Of those, 326 were 80 feet …

PT boats go into action in support of U.S. forces participating in the landings on Mindanao Island in the Philippines. PT boats, which were designed to intercept ships of larger classes, were …

Patrol torpedo boats, popularly known as "PT boats", were small, light, and fast motor torpedo boats used by the United States Navy. They were first developed in the early 1900s as a way …

All US Navy Motor Torpedo Boats (PT Boats) of World War II; listed by class, with descriptions and links to pages for individual boats.

2014年6月3日 · PT 109 was one of the hundreds of motor torpedo boats (PT) of the PT 103 class completed between 1942 and 1945 by Elco Naval Division of Electric Boat Company at …

"PT boats filled an important need in World War II in shallow waters, complementing the achievements of greater ships in greater seass. This need for small, fast, versatile, strongly …

2015年11月16日 · During World War II, the United States deployed in the Pacific 350 PT boats, mostly of the Elco and Higgins types, along with 42 in the Mediterranean and 33 in the English …