Further, many of those taken were beyond the normal range of the instruments and were considered inaccurate. George C. Sinn of Wildwood Crest, NJ on 9 October 1951 for $1,015.00. The stern of the Vosper boat is visible in the footage of that event. During the D-Day invasion, PTs patrolled the "Mason Line", forming a barrier against the German S-boats attacking the Allied landing forces. [33], One of two fully restored and operational PT boats and the only combat veteran of the two, PT-305 ("Half Hitch", "Barfly", "USS Sudden Jerk") is a Higgins 78-foot (24m) boat, assigned during the war to MTBRON-22, and saw action against the Germans in the Mediterranean Sea. The tour starts from Bow and works back to see entire boat with detail views of each weapon and piece of equipment. [citation needed], After the war, Lindsay Lord, who was stationed in Hawaii during the war, recorded the Navy's planing hull research and findings in the book Naval Architecture of Planing Hulls. The boat was restored by a group of 12 WW2 PT Boat veterans. PT Boats, or Patrol Torpedo Boats, were a secondary element in World War 2 navies, but an essential one. Pt-658 is floating on the north bank of the Willamette River, housed in a custom-built boathouse in Portland, Oregon at the P T-658 Heritage Museum located at the Swan Island Industrial Park. This second Squadron 3 was the first to arrive in the Solomons and saw heavy engagement with the "Tokyo Express". PT-617's specifications are: Length:80 feet Beam:19 feet 11 inches Draught:4 feet Crew:2 officers and 9 crewmen Displacement:51 tons fully loaded Max Speed: 41kts (46mph) Fuel Capacity:3,000 gallons of 100 octane avgas Range:358 miles at 35kts, 1050 miles on one engine, 11 knots Oil Capacity:30 gallons Armament: 4 21" Torpedoes The ring mount was designed by both Elco and Bell, and designated Mark 17 Twin 50 caliber aircraft mount. PT-309 is restored (but non-operational) in a static diorama display without engines installed. Relaunched after hull restoration from 1995 to 2005,[41] it is located at Pier 308, Vigor Shipyard in Portland, Oregon's Swan Island Lagoon. The excellent 20-page, 52-step instruction booklet offers two build options: as a 1942 newly built boat in Navy gray or as the dark green scavenged boat at the time of its sinking on August 2, 1943, with a 37mm antitank gun mounted on the forward deck. PT-3 served with the RCAF Fleet as the RCAF Bras d'Or M413 (B119) based at Eastern Air Command in Halifax. PT-459 ("Mahogany Menace") a Higgins 78-foot (24m) boat, was assigned to MTBRON 30 on 15 February 1944. The two Vosper boats in England were built by Vosper itself, and the first is in fairly good condition at Portsmouth. Direct hits from Japanese guns could and did result in catastrophic gasoline explosions with near-total crew loss. Johnson, Frank D. United States PT Boats of . Most of my experience as an interior designer of ships for the Indonesian government, BUMN, and private boats. Some boats carried a 20mm (0.79in) Oerlikon cannon. Fuel consumption of any version of these engines was exceptionally heavy. The larger boat proposal was not to exceed 80 feet and was to carry at least two 21-inch torpedoes, four depth charges, and two .50-cal machine-guns. The installation of larger-bore cannons culminated in the fitting of the 40mm Bofors gun[18] on the aft deck. Ronald G. Sinn, who in 2012 sold the boat to "Fleet Obsolete" of Kingston NY. Having radar gave Navy PTs a distinct advantage in intercepting enemy supply barges and ships at night. The boat is owned by PT Boats, Inc., a World War II PT veterans organization headquartered in Germantown, Tennessee. The Board is of the opinion that certain changes in design are required to enable PT-69 and boats of the PT-20 Class to carry safely their military loads in rough weather. PT-617 is an 80-foot (24m) Elco boat located at the Battleship Cove Naval Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. Initially, only a few boats were issued primitive radar sets. PT-305 was looking good, with a lifeboat on her foredeck, jauntily tied fast over one-half of her charthouse. All except the Huckins (PT-69) completed the run. With its stylish look, cold molded cabins, reverse S bend stem, it was one of the first successful . Atglen: Schiffer Military, 1997. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 22, or RON22, was transported to the combat theater aboard the USS Merrimack. The Huckins withdrew due to bilge stringer failure. Marine Boat. Maneuverability satisfactory with a turning circle of 368 yards. Boat Building Plans . PT658 - Virtual Boat Tour PT658 VIRTUAL TOUR SEE - HOW TO USE - BENEATH THE TOUR WINDOW: This virtual tour was created and supplied by: Visiting Media, Portland, OR - (503) 427-9786 or visit their website: visitingmedia.com The Japanese called them "Devil Boats". This boat is the only U.S. Coast Guard regulation-approved PT boat licensed to take passengers for hire, and the only surviving U.S.-built Vosper design. Higgins built an additional PT-6 "Prime" redesigned by Andrew Higgins personally using his own methods. Although their primary mission continued to be attack on surface ships and craft, PT boats were also used effectively to lay mines and smoke screens, coordinate in air-sea rescue operations, rescue shipwreck survivors, destroy Japanese suicide boats, destroy floating mines, and carry out intelligence or raider operations. The Rear Mufflers. As home to the National PT Boat Museum, Battleship Cove displays the world's largest collection of PT boat artifacts and memorabilia. One such field modification was made to Kennedy's PT-109, which was equipped with a single-shot Army M3 37mm anti-tank gun that her crew had commandeered; they removed the wheels and lashed it to 2x8 timbers placed on the bow only one night before she was lost. Lt. [22] Only the British built PT-9 prototype boat brought from England for Elco to examine and copy featured a Merlin. A model of PT Boat 109, presented to President John F. Kennedy by representatives from the Washington International Boat and Sport Show, sits on display in the Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.1212, u201cModel of PT 109.u201d] 03:33. PTs would usually attack at night. The handcrafted Huckins PT was produced at their civilian facility at a speed of one per month. The Board of Inspection and Survey, headed by Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr., conducted comparative service tests[9] off New London, 21 to 24 July 1941, using the following boats: Each member of the Board conducted an independent inspection of every boat class, evaluating them for structural sufficiency, habitability, access, arrangement for attack control, and communication facilities. They were also used during the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944. Boat ID: 36552. Box Dim. Measurements along the keel are given in both frame locations and stations. [23] They also performed lifesaving and anti-shipping mine destruction missions during the invasion. The resulting PT boat designs were the product of a small cadre of respected naval architects and the Navy. Maneuverability satisfactory, turning circle not determined photographically, estimated 300 yards. The Canadian Power Boat Company produced four Scott-Paine designed PTs for the U.S. During World War I Italy, the US, and UK developed the first high-performance gasoline-powered motor torpedo boats (often with top speeds over 40kn (74km/h)) and corresponding torpedo tactics, but these projects were all quickly disbanded after the Armistice. While favorably received, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels rejected the proposal since the US was not at war, but Hickman was advised to submit his plans and proposal to the British Admiralty, which was done the following month. Along with PT-557, the vessel was purchased from BFM Industries (Brooklyn, NY) by Capt. Packard's licensed manufacture of the famed Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine alongside the marine 4M-2500 has long been a source of confusion. A Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) PT Boat Conference convened in May 1941 to discuss future PT characteristics. Robert McFarlane. During the war, Elco came up with stepped hull designs ("ElcoPlane") which achieved significant increase in top speed. Chun, Victor. Maximum sustained speed of 27.2 knots in rough seas; maximum speed 40.9 knots. Cost to the Government fully equipped $206,600. It has been released as PT 207 and PT 212 and maybe others. In early July 1941, the Navy accepted PT-69. At the outbreak of war in August 1914, W. Albert Hickman devised the first procedures and tactics for employing fast maneuverable seaworthy torpedo motorboats against capital ships, and presented his proposal to Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, the Chief of the US Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair. This is only a few miles from the much larger Newport, Naval Station also in Rhode Island best known for the Naval War College and the site of . PT 617 was built too late to serve in WWII. PT boat interior S Stephen Borona 642 followers More information PT boat interior Naval History Military History E Boat Plywood Boat Plans Radio Controlled Boats Boat Interior Military Weapons Military Memes Model Boats More information . She was reclassified as a harbor patrol boat (YP 110) for the duration of the war. Common to all US PT boats were the two twin M2 .50 cal (12.7mm) machine guns. Following the competition, contracts were placed for construction of boats: May 25, 1939, to Higgins Industries for two boats (PT5 and PT6) of the Sparkman and Stephens design, scaled up to an overall length of 81 feet; June 8, 1939, to Fogal Boat Yard (PT-1 and PT-2) and Fisher Boat Works (PT-3 and PT-4) for the Crouch design; to the Philadelphia Navy Yard (PT-7, PT-8) for 81-foot boats designed by the Bureau of Ships. The Higgins 76' (PT-70) and boats of the Elco 77' (PT-20 Class) developed structural failures even under moderate weather conditions prevailing. Space available for two 21" torpedo tubes and ten 300-pound (140kg) depth charges. With the exception of the experimental PT boats, all U.S. PT boats were powered by three marine modified derivations of the Packard 3A-2500 V-12 liquid-cooled, gasoline-fueled aircraft engine. Two twin .50-inch (12.7mm) M2 Browning heavy machine guns were mounted for anti-aircraft defense and general fire support. As a result, the average boater expects superior levels of luxury interiors. T. Garth Connelly, Don Greer, Tom Tullis, Joe Sewell, David Doyle "Elco 80' PT Boat on Deck" (Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 2010), An excellent compendium of information about the Elco PT boats can be found in ", Haruyoshi Kimmatsu, "The night We sank John Kennedy's PT 109" appeared in, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 08:14. Powered by three Packard 5M-2500 V12 Gasoline engines rated at 1850 horsepower each! PT boats were a variety of torpedo-armed fast attack craft used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. As a result, two types 45-foot (14m) and 55-foot (17m) of British Royal Navy Coastal Motor Boats were obtained for testing. Squadron 22 was operating with the British Royal Navy Coastal Forces, and saw action along the northwest coast of Italy and southern coast of France. Starting in mid-1943, the old Mark 18 torpedo tubes and Mark 8 torpedoes began to be replaced. She is located in San Diego and is now named Malihini. Fittings (Navy standard for combatant ships) entirely too heavy and cumbersome for this type of craft. PT Boat Model Builder's PT Boat PT Boat Plan 10812 Type Model RC Scale Military. In April 1943, 25-year-old John F. Kennedy arrived in the Pacific and took command of the PT-109. [36] It was relaunched in March 2017,[37] and the museum is booking rides on Lake Pontchartrain on Saturdays, or static tours other days of the week.[38]. $60.00@ plus shipping. During the war, Navy PT boats went against the enemy's barges, tankers, sampans, and warships. PT-596 was one of the last built, entering service in May 1945. The interior is another example of how far Rob went to make this boat special. PT Boat Background Japanese Planning Pearl Harbor Patrol Torpedo boats were built during a war that changed the way of life for Americans virtually overnight. On March 21, 1939, Sparkman and Stephens won the prize in the 70-foot class and Prof. George Crouch (for Henry B. Nevins, Inc.) had won the design proposal for the 54-foot class.[5]. They were all to be approximately 50 tons, made of mahogany, and carry two .50-cal. PT-21 suffered minor cracks in the deck in the same location, but not to the same extent, as previously observed in PT-26, PT-30, and PT-33. This Squadron saw action in the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, and Funafuti. On early series of boats, this cannon was mounted on the stern. These were to be provided to the Dutch forces under Lend Lease but were re-requisitioned to the USN as PT 368371 after the fall of the Netherlands to German forces. Carrollton: Squadron Signal, 1994. It covers PT boat hull design and construction, and provides hull test data as well as detailed analysis of the various PT boat designs.[13]. In the August 1943 engagement in which PT-109 was lost, fifteen boats shipping 60 torpedoes fired over half without a single one hitting an enemy vessel. The boat was serviced and stored by Elco. PT-796's specifications are: Length: 78 feet Beam: 20 feet 8 inches Draught: 4 feet Crew: Two officers and nine crewmen Displacement: 43 tons empty, 48 tons fully loaded Max Speed: 41 knots (46mph) Fuel Capacity: 3,000 gallons of 100 octane avgas Range: 358 miles at 35 knots, 1050 miles on one engine, 11 knots So here are a few more of my collection. Carrollton: Squadron Signal, 2010. Five Elco Boats were manufactured in knock-down kit form and sent to Long Beach Boatworks for assembly on the West Coast as part of an experiment and as a proof of concept. The American side of the PT boat ("Patrol Torpedo") wars of World War 2 are primarily remembered through the exploits of the men governing their ELCO PT systems against the vessels of the mighty Japanese Navy. [5], The final PT boat design competitor was Huckins Yacht Corporation of Jacksonville, Florida. The use of PT boat torpedoes was ineffective against these sometimes heavily armed barges, since the minimum depth setting of the torpedo was about 10 feet (3 m) and the barges drew only 5 feet (1.5 m). This is the PT Boat listing page, here you can download the plan, article and see the main thumbnail and extra images. Coincidentally, the PT-309 ("Oh Frankie! Diy Boat. The accelerometers ranked the boats as follows: first was the Philadelphia Navy Yard PT-8 with the least pounding, second was the Huckins PT-69, third was the Higgins PT-6, and last were the Elco 77-footers. [5], By September 1938 the U.S. Navy had received a total of 24 design proposals for the small boat and 13 design proposals for the larger 70-footer. [23] Enemy forces would use searchlights or seaplane-dropped flares to illuminate fleeing PT boats. Designers are involved from the early stages of the design process, even on production boats. PT-323 (Elco) was cut in half by a kamikaze aircraft on 10 December 1944 off Leyte, yet remained floating for several hours. Very little tendency to pound in a seaway. It's too bad they couldn't stick with the same scale as the 1:72 Elco boat. PT Boat & Vietnam era Boat Plans After a lengthy restoration[34][35] PT-305 has been restored to a seaworthy, operational vessel. PT-658 is now fully functional and afloat, and is one of the two restored US Navy PT Boat that is operational today. As mentioned earlier, it was used in the Second World War by the U.S Navy. Today, PT-796 is located at the Battleship Cove Naval Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts, in a Quonset hut-style building, protected from the weather, and up on blocks. Some 200 US gallons (760L) an hour were consumed at a cruising speed of 23 knots (43km/h), increasing to 500 US gallons (1,900L) per hour at top speed. They each had butterfly flap valves fitted in the main exhaust pipes after the muffler take off which were operated by a lever system to allow straight through exhaust at speed or to direct the exhaust down through the mufflers to silence the boat at low speed. [note 1] Six boats completed the trial, while three withdrew: PT-33 suffered structural damage off Block Island; PT-70 was damaged by loose copper ingots; and MRB developed engine trouble at the start of the run.[9]. Several PT boats were lost due to friendly fire from both Allied aircraft and destroyers. PT-305 was acquired by the Defenders of America Naval Museum (DOANM), and then sold in May 2007 to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Conducted on 24 July 1941, this open-water trial, 190nmi (350km; 220mi) at full throttle, would forever after be referred to by PT personnel as the "Plywood Derby". by Jon Guttman 5/1/2013 [9], Boats would have their tactical parameters of each design determined by photographs from an airship. A group of PT Boat veterans banded together to restore her between 1995 and 2005, and the boat is now fully functional and afloat as a museum ship in Portland Oregon. Cost to the Government fully equipped $265,500. 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 . Much of this destruction (121 boats) occurred at PT Base 17, on Samar, Philippines, near Bobon Point.[32]. Model Dim. With its stylish look, cold molded cabins, reverse S bend stem, it was the first successful ELCO design. 70 cm. Wooden-hulled, 80 feet long with a 20-foot, 8-inch beam, the Elco PT boats had three 12-cylinder Packard gasoline engines generating a total of 4,500 horsepower for a designed speed of 41. By the war's end, most PTs had these weapons. While serviceable naval vessels in their own right, the group lacked the performance and capabilities that the USN sought. [citation needed]. Later that same year, Higgins was to build PT-70 (at their own expense) that incorporated slight improvements over PT-6 Prime. The reality was his claims that PTs had sunk a Japanese cruiser, a troopship, and a plane tender in the Philippines were untrue.[24][25]. Doyle, David.. PT Boats in Action. Though often said to be made of plywood, they were actually made of two diagonal layered 1in (25mm) thick mahogany planks, with a glue-impregnated layer of canvas in between. Compounding the difficulty with the early torpedoes, attacking at night PT boat crews may have sometimes failed to note a possible torpedo failure. Of the nearly 400 small, fast, versatile wooden Patrol Torpedo boats which were built around WWII, only a handful survive to this day. In June 1945 the squadron was shipped to the U.S. for refitting and transfer to the Pacific, but the war ended while still in New York. Insane interior #boatfloor that costs under $12/SQFT. I've always felt that living on our sailboat is like living in a basement apartment because it is totally lacking in natural light!. PT-191 was one of the last boats in the first series (PTs 103-196)of the PT-103 Class. Starting in mid-1943, the installation of this gun had an immediate positive effect on the firepower available from a PT boat. The 85-foot-long Mk VIs, which displace around 72 tons, have a main armament of two M242 Bushmaster cannons, the same gun found on the U.S. Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicles, in a pair of. JKF was then a young Navy lieutenant, commanding the now famous PT 109, which as PT boats go, was something of a heap. was assigned during the war to MTBRON 22, and saw action against the Germans in the Mediterranean Sea. Yacht Interior. Other paints were used as well, and as soon as I find their nomenclature and corresponding numbers, I will post them here. 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The cockpits of PT boats were protected by armor plate against small arms fire and splinters. These boats were never used by the U.S. Navy, and only about 50 were used by the Royal Navy; most were passed to other countries. This resulted in the November 1943 Miami test trial between two Higgins and two Elco boats, but no major additional modifications were made before the end of the war. Of those proposals submitted, Three 54-ft designs and five 70-ft designs were of interest and the designers were asked to submit more detailed plans for both the 54 and 70 foot boats by no later than the 7th of November 1938. The MK VI patrol boats are designed and built by American boat manufacturer, Safe Boats International (SBI), to serve as the next-generation patrol boats for the US Navy. She was transferred back to the United States in April 1945. After obtaining excellent testing results at the Plywood Derby, the Navy awarded Huckins Yacht Corporation a contract in 1941 for 8 boats, and later added 10 more. The other competitors had copper ingots added topside (mostly in the turrets) to make up the difference. This article is about US Navy patrol torpedo boats in World War II. Huckins ended up building just two squadrons of PT boats during World War II. An accelerometer was installed in the pilot house of each boat to record "pounding". Over 200 photographs, 236 pages, 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" format, and drawings of profiles and deck plans. PT-724, a surviving Vosper built at the Annapolis Boat yard in Maryland, has been used as a yacht, and has since been acquired by the Liberty Aviation Museum to be restored back to original Vosper configuration. The quality of the restoration was extremely high, and the boat is on display inside a weatherproof building, on blocks out of the water. 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