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1 kwi 2012 · The Genuine PT Boat. This is PT-728, a 66 1/2 year-old restored Patrol Torpedo Boat from World War II. With a keel laid on August 10, 1945, she is one of 12 remaining PT boats in the world.
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".
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 ...
Historic Elco PT 617 and Higgins 796 are WW2 patrol torpedo boats. 617 is the same type boat as was used by President John F. Kennedy as the captain of PT 109.
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.
26 paź 2016 · PT boats played an essential and dramatic role in advancing the U.S.’s military campaigns in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today, just four combat-veteran PT boats still...
