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USS PT-96, built by Huckins at Jacksonville, Florida, underway at high speed, circa 1942. Huckins Yacht Corporation built PT boats for two squadrons during World War II. In 1940, three governing bodies – the Bureau of Ships, the Board of Inspection and Survey, and the Navy Personnel Command – had agreed that all PT boats developed up to that time were defective.
Early Sea Snarks featured an unclad one-piece injection-molded EPS hull and the hull weighed approximately 30 lbs. Later versions, marketed s the Sunflower, Super Snark and Super Sea Snark featured a vacuum formed layer of ABS (later ASA) [7] bonded over the EPS hull for a hull weight of 43 lbs. Snark Products patented the cladding process, which eliminated the possibility of voids within the ...
The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo MD7 diesel engine for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds 15 U.S. gallons (57 L; 12 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 20 U.S. gallons (76 L; 17 imp gal). [1] [2] The design has a hull speed of 6.34 kn (11.74 km/h). [2]
The Chaser 29 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 6,600 lb (2,994 kg). [1] [2] The boat has a draft of 5.58 ft (1.70 m) with the standard keel. [1] [2]
The Eagle-class patrol craft were anti-submarine vessels of the United States Navy that were built during World War I using mass production techniques. They were steel-hulled ships smaller than contemporary destroyers but having a greater operational radius than the wooden-hulled, 110-foot (34 m) submarine chasers developed in 1917.
USS PC-1129 was a PC-461-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was sunk by a Japanese suicide boat in January 1945 in the South China Sea . [ 2 ]
Albatros was launched on 27 May 1934, after 3 years of construction, commissioned on 10 November 1934, entered the service with Regia Marina by the end of 1934. Being almost immediately reclassified as a second-line ship, her more modern 100 mm (4 in)/47 caliber cannons were replaced with World War I era 100 mm (4 in)/35 caliber ones.
HMS Chaser (D32/R306/A727) was an American-built Attacker-class escort carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Acquired by the United States Navy for conversion to a Bogue -class escort carrier ; she was transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as Chaser on 9 April 1943, under the Lend-Lease agreement.