But perhaps the best known of the Elco boats was the ill-fated PT-109 skippered by Lt.

Pt boat. On the night of Aug. Folks Know Your PT Boat July 1945 was created very near the end of WW II to use as an introduction to PT Boats for crews in training. WW2 PT boats generally carried four torpedoes when configured for anti-ship duty.

Kennedy future 35th president of the United States. This booklet was created months before the end of a deadly bitterly fought war with Imperial Japan. PT Boats is dedicated to a small group of little known but perhaps some of the most daring naval combatants of World War II.

Boats were being fitted with deck mortars and rocket projectors as well as aircraft-type repeating. I did recently find reference to a quantity of 11 British style Fairmile-B boats having been built at Lars Halvorsens boat works in Ryde in NSW. Many engineers were decorated for their performance in such conditions.

PT boat armament soon went beyond the early standard-issue weaponry for many boats were modified in-the-field with a plethora of impressive armament arrangements. 2 1943 the Japanese destroyer Amagiri caught PT-109 idling in a strait off the Solomon Islands and rammed the smaller vessel killing two crewmen and injuring Kennedy. Reyes lifeboat station - pt boat stock pictures royalty-free photos images footbridge to pt.

PT-109 was an 80 Elco PT boat patrol torpedo boat last commanded by Lieutenant junior grade John F. The torpedo boat crews. Ad Luxury Cobalt Boats in Lake Geneva WI.

Additionally night attacks proved the PT boat a ferocious adversary to the point that the Japanese considered them torpedo-spewing monsters that. Bonita lighthouse - pt boat stock pictures royalty-free photos images The Abyss -- When a Navy Admirals daughter is the prime suspect in a double murder case aboard a research boat. In 1942 but I would be interested in any further information where did they serve.