 | PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president,... 68 KB (8,952 words) - 02:10, 8 March 2024 |
 | PT-59 / PTGB-1 was an S-Class Patrol Torpedo boat (PT boat) of the United States Navy, built by the Electric Launch Company of Bayonne, New Jersey. The... 30 KB (3,893 words) - 01:12, 10 March 2024 |
| 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... 86 KB (11,975 words) - 18:06, 17 April 2024 |
| PT-105 was a PT boat of the United States Navy during World War II. The 80-foot (24 m) motor torpedo boat was built by the Elco Motor Yacht Company of... 5 KB (432 words) - 19:23, 20 March 2024 |
 | 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... 8 KB (672 words) - 12:53, 17 February 2022 |
PT-109 may refer to: Patrol torpedo boat PT-109, the boat commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival,... 1 KB (201 words) - 03:18, 24 June 2021 |
 | 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... 8 KB (679 words) - 13:09, 12 August 2023 |
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 in the Pacific theater of World War II. The film was adapted by Vincent Flaherty and Howard Sheehan from the book PT 109: John... 20 KB (2,494 words) - 19:12, 26 February 2024 |
White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a United States PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion... 18 KB (2,303 words) - 08:15, 21 February 2024 |
McHale's Navy (redirect from Torpedo Boat Squadron 19) mock-ups of US Navy 21" MK-18, swing-out, torpedo tubes (as carried on the early war 80-ft Elco boats like the PT-109) replacing the MK-7/8 tubes normally... 55 KB (7,862 words) - 06:10, 24 April 2024 |
 | lightly armored, but yet mobile and maneuverable small PT Torpedo Boats increased, as well as Patrol and Landing Craft used in case of National Emergency... 12 KB (541 words) - 14:21, 21 April 2024 |
 | frigates, missile boats are popular with nations interested in forming a navy at lower cost. They are similar in concept to the torpedo boats of World War... 10 KB (1,285 words) - 03:54, 20 February 2024 |
Torpedo Boat PT-109. PT-109 is a torpedo-boat simulation game which starts in the practice-tactics mode to teach new players how to operate the boat,... 4 KB (397 words) - 17:38, 22 January 2024 |
 | islands, Plum Pudding, Olasana, and Naru, that were visited by the Patrol torpedo boat PT 109 survivors lie just to the southeast of Ghizo island. On 2 April... 10 KB (876 words) - 06:14, 27 March 2024 |
from Russia Vietnam People's Navy: 4 in service Shanghai II-class torpedo patrol boat Builder: China Displacement: 135 tons Operators: Albanian Naval... 157 KB (18,420 words) - 17:24, 24 April 2024 |
bomber Consolidated PB2Y Coronado - Flying boat/patrol bomber Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor - Flying boat/patrol bomber Culver TDC - Radio-controlled drone... 16 KB (1,696 words) - 14:21, 11 February 2024 |
 | American PT boats and British motor torpedo boats (MTBs). As a result of early war experience of combat against the fast and powerful S-boats, the Royal... 93 KB (7,288 words) - 16:54, 25 April 2024 |
the ramming and sinking of future President John F. Kennedy's Patrol Torpedo Boat 109 by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the coast of Kolombangara... 16 KB (2,174 words) - 09:46, 5 December 2023 |
 | Cruiser (section Torpedo cruisers) loaded. The lead Japanese force evaded the PT boats' torpedoes, but were hit hard by the destroyers' torpedoes, losing a battleship. Then they encountered... 111 KB (15,298 words) - 00:47, 12 April 2024 |
 | USS Niagara (PG-52) (redirect from USS Niagara (torpedo boat tender/gunboat)) 17 February. In the ensuing months, she tended the motor torpedo boats running security patrols off Guadalcanal. On 7 April the Japanese raided the Guadalcanal-Tulagi... 8 KB (995 words) - 15:55, 6 July 2023 |
riot of 1943, a race riot. August 3 – WWII: John F. Kennedy's patrol torpedo boat PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer. August 5 – WWII: John F. Kennedy and... 58 KB (4,399 words) - 10:16, 26 April 2024 |
British admiral Charles A. "Bucky" Harris (fl. 1940s), crewman of patrol torpedo boat PT-109, commanded by then LTJG John F. Kennedy Charles Harris (mayor)... 3 KB (404 words) - 18:56, 26 August 2023 |
18 flying boat patrol bomber Dornier Do 19 heavy bomber Dornier Do 22 reconnaissance torpedo bomber Dornier Do 23 bomber Dornier Do 24 patrol bomber flying... 27 KB (3,133 words) - 03:25, 12 April 2024 |
 | Battle of Blackett Strait (section PT-109) they left, the remaining boats were virtually blind. Patrolling just after the section leader had departed for home, PT-109 was run down on a dark moonless... 19 KB (1,913 words) - 06:10, 20 June 2023 |
 | Submarine (redirect from Patrol submarine) Barrow-in-Furness, under licence from the Holland Torpedo Boat Company from 1901 to 1903. Construction of the boats took longer than anticipated, with the first... 131 KB (15,426 words) - 21:51, 25 April 2024 |
 | midget boat, but the prototype was not complete when scuttled in May 1945. Neger (~200 built) 1-man 5-ton torpedo with underslung G7E torpedo. Top speed... 32 KB (3,937 words) - 09:11, 29 December 2023 |
Arthur Reginald Evans (section PT-109 incident) President John F. Kennedy and his surviving crew after their motor torpedo boat, PT-109, was sunk by the Japanese in August 1943. Evans was born in Sydney... 14 KB (1,473 words) - 08:47, 10 February 2024 |
 | More 80-foot Elco boats were built than any other type of US motor torpedo boat. Perhaps the most notable 80-foot PT boat was PT-109, commanded by future... 11 KB (990 words) - 17:16, 6 August 2023 |
submarine during the attack on Sydney Harbour HMAS Mavie: Australian patrol boat sunk 19 February 1942 by aircraft in Darwin Harbour. Neptuna: Australian... 28 KB (3,038 words) - 21:59, 14 February 2024 |
 | with the JRM after the war were the eight American MT-class motor torpedo boats, PT boats built by Higgins which received designations from MT1 to MT8. Starting... 37 KB (1,734 words) - 21:58, 26 April 2024 |