PT-796 is a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans in 1945. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 as one of a very...
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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...
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Motor torpedo boat PT-617, also known as Big Red Cock and Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat and represents the United States's...
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and sea trials. PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats are well known as these small boats were heavily armed, pound for pound the deadliest boats of the war, also...
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Battleship Cove (section PT boats)
Battleship Cove Naval Museum homepage PT-617—Photos of the Elco PT boat PT-617 PT-796—Photos of the Higgins PT boat PT-796 USS Joseph P. Kennedy—Photos on board...
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Submarine chaser PT boat British Power Boat Company – producer of the PT boat prototype Canadian Power Boat Company Patrol boat USCG Patrol Boat Fast Attack...
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Nuclear submarine (redirect from Nuclear U-Boat)
pp. 3-5. Mitenkov et al. (1997), p. 145. Antipov and Koroleva (2004), p. 796. Jackson Davis and Van Dyke (1990), pp. 467-469. Mélennec, Olivier (26 October...
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Admiral Yi Sunshin. ROKS Jirisan (PC 704) ROK Navy personnel acquiring PT boats in 1952 LSTs were named for mountains, with the exception of Andong. LSSLs...
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time. The four ships of the Sacramento-class were 53,000 tons at full load, 796 feet overall length, and carried two Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters...
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[3] No.31-class patrol boat Patrol Boat No. 31 (ex-Kiku) [4] Patrol Boat No. 32 (ex-Aoi) [5] Patrol Boat No. 33 (ex-Hagi) [6] Patrol Boat No. 34 (ex-Susuki)...
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Project 123K (P-4 class) torpedo boats: several dozen transferred from former-USSR. Project 183T (P-8 class) torpedo boats: 1 unit transferred from former-USSR...
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USS Aries (PHM-5) USS Gemini (PHM-6) The Patrol Boat, River was acquired for the Vietnam War: 718 of these 31/32-foot long boats were purchased with a peak of 250...
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USS Varuna (AGP-5) (category Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tenders)
USS Varuna (AGP-5) was a Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tender of the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was laid down on 23 August 1942...
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conventional attacks. Numbers quoted vary, but at least 47 Allied vessels, from PT boats to escort carriers, were sunk by kamikaze attacks, and about 300 damaged...
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magazine published from 1960 to 2003. 73 was the number on the Torpedo Patrol (PT) boat in the TV show McHale's Navy. The registry of the U.S. Navy's nuclear...
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"Hakusan Maru". www.combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 3 June 2019. "Captured torpedo boats". Warshipsww2.Eu. Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved...
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May 1915 (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
trawlers fought off German torpedo boats at Noordhinder Bank in the south part of the North Sea, resulting in both torpedo boats being sunk with 13 German...
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outside Egypt's territorial waters), was attacked by Israeli jets and torpedo boats, nearly sinking the ship, killing 34 sailors and wounding 171. Israel...
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Carl, "Recognition of the SS Wayne Victory", Congressional Record, V. 145, Pt. 17, October 6, 1999, pg 24148 Geller, Eric. "Obscura Day at the Greenslade...
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USS PC-552 (category World War II patrol vessels of the United States)
crew noted during their pursuit of an e-boat in February 1945. Anti-submarine weapons were the heart of the patrol craft. They consisted of a 3"/50 caliber...
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Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. p. 211. ISBN 3-7637-4807-5. "Italian motor torpedo boat Type MAS 501". Warshipsww2. Archived from the original on 10 September...
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