The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...
They were beautiful, fast and glamorous -- a rare opportunity for a young reserve officer like John F. Kennedy to earn a coveted command at sea. But should a PT boat ever be caught with idling engines ...
15 October 2009--- Battlefront.com, an independent internet-based publisher for superior war and strategy games and one of the internets largest wargaming communities, and Akella, one of Eastern ...