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The Potez-CAMS 141 was designed by Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine (or CAMS, which since 1933 had been part of Potez) to meet a 1935 French Navy specification for a long range marine reconnaissance flying boat to replace obsolete aircraft such as the Breguet Bizerte, competing against the Latécoère 611 and Breguet 730.
Very different dates for the first flight appear in the literature: a contemporary report in Flight gives it as within few weeks before 7 December 1939, [2] with "further flying tests" in the first half of 1942, [2] whereas Hartmann [3] has 20 March 1942 as the first flight date. In either case the CAMS machine was the first of the three to fly.
At the bow of the boat are storage bags for equipment (foot pumps, extra lines, etc.) and a special fuel bladder, which can be of either 6- or 18-gallon capacity and which feeds the engine via a flexible hose. Deflated and rolled up, the boat and all necessary equipment can easily fit into the bed of a small pickup.
Torpedo boat (fast attack craft) Displacement: 183.4 tonnes standard, 210 tonnes full load: Length: 42.6 m (139 ft 9 in) Beam: 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in) Draught: 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) Propulsion: 4 Maybach MD 871 diesel engines, 3000 PS each (replaced by MD 872 engines with 3600 PS in the late 1960s)
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three (MTBRon 3) was a United States Navy squadron based at Naval Base Cavite, Cavite, Philippines, from September 1941 to December 1941. It was commanded by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and made up of six motor torpedo boats : PT-31 , PT-32 , PT-33 , PT-34 , PT-35 , and PT-41 , the last as the squadron flagship .
In 2002, the Swedish Navy ordered an additional 27 boats of a slightly different type, designated Stridsbåt 90 HS – where S refers to Skydd (protected) [2] as the Strb 90 HS is armoured and features CBRN protection (the whole boat can be over-pressurized) – intended for use in international peace-keeping operations. Apart from the addition ...