Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy USS Silversides The USS Silversides began service on December 15, 1941, eight days after the ...

How a professional ship-sinker is about to turn a famous ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef The SS United ...

The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most ...

Previous versions of the small, capital ship-killer like the motor torpedo boat, and Cold War-era missile patrol boat never lived up to the potential to which their proponents endowed them.

A flotilla of 'Little Ships' marking the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo was forced to divert its route because of a migrant boat crossing over the English Channel from France.

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 ...

Under the command of Lt. Isadore Kovar, PT-137 missed a Japanese destroyer — and crippled a cruiser instead.

As a Hollywood legend of unmatched proportions, many of the greatest John Wayne movies were actually based on or inspired by ...

The insignia for Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 33 during World War II. (Navy) As the boats finally reached their objective, they found Thompson too exhausted to make the final five yards to reach them.

PT-109 arrived in the Solomon Islands in late 1942 and was assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 2 based on Tulagi island, participating in combat operations around Guadalcanal from December 7 ...

A rare World War II-era flying boat called the Philippine Mars made a pit stop in the Bay Area this past weekend. The boat landed in the Bay Area on Sunday from the British Columbia and anchored ...

Headed to South Florida for the boat show? This is the list of boats for the 2025 Miami Boat Show that you must see.