The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes ...

In an ironic twist, it arrived in New York on Sept. 5, 1939 — days after World War II broke out in Europe. Two months later, the Navy gave Elco the contract to make 11 boats using Scott-Paine's ...

MTB 219 is being restored in Somerset and has so for cost £30,000 A World War Two torpedo boat being restored in Somerset has taken to the water in Bridgwater. The 73ft (22m) Motor Torpedo Boat ...

A World War II boat that attacked German battle cruisers in the English Channel could be destroyed unless £10,000 is raised by restorers. Motor Torpedo Boat enthusiast Paul Childs was contacted ...

View of motor torpedo boat PT 59 during its World War II service in the Solomon Islands, early to mid 1940s. The boat was famously commanded by the-future US President John F. Kennedy as his ...

MTB 219 is being restored in Somerset and has so for cost £30,000 A World War Two torpedo boat being restored in Somerset has taken to the water in Bridgwater. The 73ft (22m) Motor Torpedo Boat ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo ... Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: ...