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  2. PT boat - Wikipedia

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    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 fragile construction that limited some of the variants ...

  3. Fleet Obsolete - Wikipedia

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    Seven Packard engines that will be used for the PT Boat restorations, 1,500 shp V12 M2500 gasoline engines, Former boat: Patrol torpedo boat PT-728, a 70-foot Annapolis Yacht Yard, Annapolis, Maryland, completed 20 October 1945, was Endeavor II, acquired in 1967 by Fleet Obsolete, sold in 2012 to Liberty Aviation Museum. This was Iannucci first ...

  4. PTF boat - Wikipedia

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    The PTF designation was give to 26 boats with four different boat designs. The PTF boats were the Vietnam War "brown water" river boats version of the World War II PT boats. They were heavily armed gunboats that were used by the US Navy and by Special forces. [3] The first two PTF boats were commissioned 21 December 1962.

  5. Patrol Boat, River - Wikipedia

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    Patrol Boat, Riverine, or PBR, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hulled patrol boat used in the Vietnam War from March 1966 until 1975. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common craft in the River Patrol Force, Task Force 116, and were used to stop and search river traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon ...

  6. Wooden boats of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Boats had a top speed of 41 knots (76 km/h; 47 mph) with 4,500 horsepower. PT boats were built in eleven US boatyards, by the end of the war 808 were built in three lengths: 70, 78 and 80-foot. After the war most were destroyed and some sold. The three high HP engines used a high amount of fuel and the boats were deemed not usable anymore.

  7. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two - Wikipedia

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    During the trip there was heavy weather with 8-to-10-foot (2.4 to 3.0 m) waves. The waves broke high over the PT boat's bows. All PT boats had sort of structural failure, was due to poor ballast attachment, some due to design problems. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One also took part in the testing. After the Plywood Derby testing, MTBRon 2 ...