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Boat Summary. $500,000 (USD) Boat ID: 36552. Of the nearly 400 small, fast, versatile wooden Patrol Torpedo boats which were built around WWII, only a handful survive to this day. PT 48 is the only remaining 77' Elco PT Boat and a member of the heroic WWII "Mosquito Fleet".
26 paź 2016 · After 10 years and more than 100,000 hours of work by 200 volunteers, the U.S. National WWII Museum's historic patrol-torpedo boat PT-305 has been completely restored. PT boats played...
The boat was built with triple Packard V12's. This vessel saw real combat duty and is the last known currently operational unrestored true PT boat left. This vessel is intended for sale to a party who will restore and use or display.
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4 maj 2021 · A standard ELCO PT boat of 1943 displaced between 38 to 51 tons with a running length of 80 feet, a beam of 20.75 feet and a draught of just 5 feet - the latter a true tactical advantage if attacked by enemy torpedoes, which require a certain depth of the target under the waterline.
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 ...
1 maj 2013 · Elco PT Boat: 80 Feet of Wood and Weaponry. Of the nearly 400 fast, light and heavily armed patrol boats Elco made for the U.S. Navy during World War II, a few achieved notoriety and one survives today as a museum ship. by Jon Guttman 5/1/2013.
