George C. Sinn of Wildwood Crest, NJ on 9 October 1951 for $1,015.00. The PT boat design was also exported after the end of the Second World War as an unarmed air-sea rescue launch for use by the South African Navy. Plans are for restoring the vessel to recreate the World War II appearance. Holding all this together were thousands of bronze screws and copper rivets. The PT-109 disaster made JFK a hero. PT-615 was returned to Elco after being sold and was heavily modified into a yacht, which was leased to actor Clark Gable. RMKECG59 - Interior of JFK Library, Boston, USA. She is available for public viewing, and has portions of her hull cut away to display the cramped interior of the crew's quarters. In April 1943, 25-year-old John F. Kennedy arrived in the Pacific and took command of the PT-109. The 80' Elco Patrol Torpedo boat was the last of the wartime PT boat development. This second Squadron 3 was the first to arrive in the Solomons and saw heavy engagement with the "Tokyo Express". [9], Lastly, there was a demonstration of seakeeping qualities and hull strength by making a run at maximum sustained speed in the open ocean. PT-305 was looking good, with a lifeboat on her foredeck, jauntily tied fast over one-half of her charthouse. The boat is owned by PT Boats, Inc., a World War II PT veterans organization headquartered in Germantown, Tennessee. ELCO 80' PT - 596 TORPEDO BOAT. PT boats offered accommodation for three officers and 14 enlisted men. Coincidentally, the PT-309 ("Oh Frankie! [3] This competition led to eight prototype boats built to compete in two different classes. PT-3 was designed by George Crouch and employed lightweight planing hull construction methods. 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]. PT-728, a surviving Vosper boat built under license at the Annapolis Boat Yard in Maryland, was restored in Key West, Florida. Towards the end of the war, beginning in 1945, PTs received two eight-cell Mark 50 rocket launchers,[20] launching 5in (130mm) spin-stabilized flat trajectory Mark 7 and/or Mark 10 rockets[21] with a range of 11,000 yards (10,000m). These beasts will propel the 50 ton boat at speeds up to 50 knots. Powered by three Packard 5M-2500 V12 Gasoline engines rated at 1850 horsepower each! Packard's licensed manufacture of the famed Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine alongside the marine 4M-2500 has long been a source of confusion. PT 48 was one of the first 4 boats to arrive at Tulagi, on 12 October 1942. They seems to be confused about the scale, some issues say 1:96 others 1:100 scale. [26] [3] In September 1914, Hickman completed plans for a 50-foot (15m) "Sea Sled" torpedo boat and submitted these to the Navy in hopes of obtaining a contract. We promise fish will be wanting to jump aboard your boat! (Price will increase as the work progresses) Of the nearly 400 small, fast, versatile wooden Patrol Torpedo boats which were built around WWII, only a handful survive to this day. A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. The Rear Mufflers. PT-766 is an 80-foot (24m) Elco boat that is a private yacht ("Finished Business") located in Washington D.C. She represents the final class of Elco's with significant updates to the superstructure and radar and was intended for MTBRON 44, but was cancelled due to the end of the war. 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. Length 78in. Most probably due to the lateness in joining the PT boat program and unlike Elco and Higgins, the Huckins yard was never provided any government support to construct a larger facility prior to the war. Some boats carried a 20mm (0.79in) Oerlikon cannon. 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. 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. 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. Very little tendency to pound in a seaway. Perhaps the most effective use of PTs was as "barge busters." During the war, Elco came up with stepped hull designs ("ElcoPlane") which achieved significant increase in top speed. The quality of the restoration was extremely high, and the boat is on display inside a weatherproof building, on blocks out of the water. I chose the latter with red oxide below the waterline tempered with a bit . [4] The larger boat was used for experiments until 1930. Maintained by an all volunteer group, it is powered by the three Packard V12 5M-2500 gas engines[42] and includes all weapons, electronics, equipment and accessories restored to appear as they did the day the US Navy accepted the boat, 31 July 1945. Of plywood and mahogany construction, a PT is light yet strong, lightly armored yet strongly armed. Higgins developed the small and fast 70-foot (21m) Higgins Hellcat, which was a slight variation on their original hull form, but the Navy rejected them for full production due to increased fuel consumption and other considerations. During the war, Navy PT boats went against the enemy's barges, tankers, sampans, and warships. Its draft is seldom over 6 feet thus enabling it to maneuver in shallow water. The 619 P Boat has been the star of many events. Print product data sheet. The boat is owned by PT Boats, Inc., a World War II PT veterans organization headquartered in Germantown, Tennessee. Motor torpedo boat PT-796, was laid down on 3 May 1945, launched on 23 June, and completed after the end of the war on 26 October as a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans, LA. PT-796 ("Tail Ender") is a 78-foot (24m) Higgins. 70 cm. Ability to make a maximum sustained speed of 30.7 knots; maximum speed 33.9 knots with light ordnance load. It was subsequently upgraded in stages to 1,500hp (1,100kW), allowing a designed speed of 41 knots (76km/h). This Squadron saw action in the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, and Funafuti. After testing was completed, PT-3 was transferred to Canada in April 1941 under lend-lease. 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. The boat was restored by a group of 12 WW2 PT Boat veterans. 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. (Here are selected photos on this topic, but full relevance is not guaranteed.) Elco competed for the, Other PT boats gaining fame during the war were. 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. was assigned during the war to MTBRON 22, and saw action against the Germans in the Mediterranean Sea. Growing up in Rhode Island at a young age I knew what a PT Boat was; especially famous one's like Kennedy's PT 109. And that's exactly what one owner has done with a brand new 94-footer that has interiors inspired by his . Initially, only a few boats were issued primitive radar sets. This resulted in severe conditions for several of the boats during the trial and accounted for the transverse failure in PT-70's deck and subsequent hull failure as the copper fell into the hull. In the Solomon Islands in 1943, three 77-foot (23m) PT boats, PT-59, PT-60, and PT-61, were converted into "PT gunboats" by stripping them of all original armament except the two twin .50 cal (12.7mm) gun mounts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7mm) mounts. Sometimes you just have to create a custom yacht to go with your custom Ferrari. .. K. sdaf . 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. 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]. The original 196266 McHale's Navy TV series used a Vosper design PT-694[49] She was reclassified as a harbor patrol boat (YP 110) for the duration of the war. PT-323 (Elco) was cut in half by a kamikaze aircraft on 10 December 1944 off Leyte, yet remained floating for several hours. PT 48 is the only remaining 77' Elco PT Boat and a member of the heroic WWII "Mosquito Fleet". The interior of PT-658 is divided below deck into eight watertight compartments separated by built-up plywood bulkheads (walls). These torpedoes were launched by Mark 18 21-inch (530mm) steel torpedo tubes. We are capable of reupholstering the seats in your bass boat back to original specs, or we can change out the color scheme, the most popular service offered is deck carpet replacement, choose from a variety of the carpets we carry. On the night of 13/14 October 1942, PT-48 engaged a Japanese destroyer at 200 yards (180m). References. Cost to the Government fully equipped $206,600. The Japanese called them "Devil Boats". The make-up of a typical section of the boats hull consists of the following layers: 5/8' Mahogany exterior hull planking Glue-impregnated canvas for waterproofing 1/2 " mahogany strips on the interior PT BOAT BUILDERS Three companies built PT boats for the U.S. Navy. In 1942, the scheme initially applied to the Elco 80 footers utilized Navy Gray (#5) and Dark Gray (5-D) The bottom paint for all of these schemes was Copperoyd. All except the Huckins (PT-69) completed the run. Some PT boats served during the Battle of Normandy. She was transferred back to the United States in April 1945. Prior to starring in the television series this boat was purchased as war surplus by Howard Hughes and was used as the camera chase boat when the Spruce Goose made its only flight. Earlier when Sea Sleds were specifically excluded, Crouch had informed the Bureau of Ships that the Sea Sled was the best type of vessel for the job. by Jon Guttman 5/1/2013 Tug Boats. Improvements upon Packard's World War I Liberty L-12 2A engine, the successive "M" for "marine" designated 3M-2500, 4M-2500, and 5M-2500 generations all featured slight changes and more power. A Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) PT Boat Conference convened in May 1941 to discuss future PT characteristics. It's too bad they couldn't stick with the same scale as the 1:72 Elco boat. From a design standpoint, boats are more challenging to design than . PT-617 is an 80-foot (24m) Elco boat located at the Battleship Cove Naval Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. 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. The Japanese were initially cautious when operating their capital ships in areas known to have PT boats, knowing how dangerous their own Type 93 torpedoes were, and assumed the Americans had equally lethal weapons. The 1938 United States Navy PT, which has been restored and adapted to Coast Guard Standards, is a durable boat that was originally used in the US fleet for a period of time. Maneuverability satisfactory except for a large turning circle of 432 yards (395m). Bass Boats. She was obtained from the backwaters of Florida and moved to its current location by JM "Boats" Newberry, the founder of PT Boats Inc. "Boats" along with the team at Battleship Cove Museum restored her during 198489, inside and out, at a cost of US$1 million. Designers are involved from the early stages of the design process, even on production boats. A common characteristic of this type of contoured hull is the "rooster tail" in the wake. Full-load displacement late in the war was 56 tons. Further, many of those taken were beyond the normal range of the instruments and were considered inaccurate. Insane interior #boatfloor that costs under $12/SQFT. In early 1941 the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships (BuShips) lent Packard engines to both Huckins and Higgins, which wanted to build competitive boats at their own expense. U.S. Navy PT boats were organized into motor torpedo boat squadrons (MTBRONs). While visiting the British Power Boat Company, they purchased a 70-foot (21m) private venture motor torpedo boat (MTB) design - PV70 - (later renamed PT-9), designed by the power boat racer Hubert Scott-Paine. Starting in mid-1943, the old Mark 18 torpedo tubes and Mark 8 torpedoes began to be replaced. After the war, the ex-PT459 was cut down to 65ft (20m) and highly modified into a sightseeing boat and fishing trawler. According to the deck log of PT-305, she was kept on board the Merrimack for several days, anchored in the port of Mers El Kbir in Algeria until 25 April. [16][17] Another automatic weapon commonly mounted on PT boats was the 20mm Oerlikon cannon. 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. PT-728 was acquired by Fleet Obsolete and moved to Kingston. 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. the plywood landing craft vehicle personnel (LCVP) used so successfully in the beach landings at Normandy in the Atlantic and the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific produced 199 78ft (24m) boats of the PT-71/PT-235, PT-265 and PT-625 classes. 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". All PTs prior to the 77ft (23m) Elcos had been found defective, and it was probable the extended 70ft (21m) Elco would not be an improvement. By class, PT-20, an Elco 77-footer, came in first with an average speed of 39.72kn (73.56km/h; 45.71mph); followed by PT-31, with an average speed of 37.01kn (68.54km/h; 42.59mph); PT-69, the Huckins 72-foot (22m) boat, was third with an average speed of 33.83kn (62.65km/h; 38.93mph);[note 2] PT-6, the Higgins 81-footer, with an average speed of 31.4kn (58.2km/h; 36.1mph) was fifth; and PT-8, the Philadelphia Navy Yard boat, was last, at 30.75kn (56.95km/h; 35.39mph). Two twin .50-inch (12.7mm) M2 Browning heavy machine guns were mounted for anti-aircraft defense and general fire support. These torpedoes and tubes were replaced in mid-1943 by four lightweight 22.5-inch-diameter (570mm) Mark 13 torpedoes, which weighed 2,216 pounds (1,005kg) and contained a 600-pound (270kg) Torpex-filled warhead. To accomplish the task, PTs in the Mediterranean and the Pacific (and RN and RCN motor torpedo boats in the Mediterranean) installed more and heavier guns which were able to sink the barges. The installation of larger-bore cannons culminated in the fitting of the 40mm Bofors gun[18] on the aft deck. She was preparing to leave her cozy berth inside the corrugated steel boathouse. Hampden. [23] They also performed lifesaving and anti-shipping mine destruction missions during the invasion. Of the Elco boats, only three hulls (one restored) were known to exist as of 2016. PT-658 is a 78-foot (24m) Higgins boat and one of two 100% authentically restored and operational U.S. Navy PT boats afloat today. She was acquired by Fleet Obsolete in June 2008 and moved to Kingston, New York, for possible restoration. These 16 rockets plus 16 reloads gave them as much firepower as a destroyer's 5-inch (127mm) guns (albeit without their accuracy). [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. PT-309 is located at the National Museum of the Pacific War / Admiral Nimitz Museum[39] in Fredericksburg, Texas, and was restored by the (now defunct) Defenders of America Naval Museum (DOANM). 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. The vessel was sold in 1952 to Otto Stocker who operated the "Sightseer" as an excursion vessel from Otten's Harbor in Wildwood, New Jersey. [45] PT-3 and PT-8 were both part of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 1 (MTBRON 1) during the testing period. JKF was then a young Navy lieutenant, commanding the now famous PT 109, which as PT boats go, was something of a heap. However, the USN held two major designs as their standard PT boat and this included the ELCO 80-footer and the Higgins 78-foot. The boat was serviced and stored by Elco. Remarkably, the PT486 was sold to the son of the original owner, Capt. [3] In February 1915, this Hickman sea sled demonstrated 35kn (65km/h; 40mph) speeds in rough winter seas off Boston to both US and foreign representatives but again, he received no contracts. This article is about US Navy patrol torpedo boats in World War II. According to Robert McFarlane, the US Navy built the hulls of some PT boats partially from 3,000-year-old white cedar logs recovered from sphagnum bog in New Jersey.[10][11]. Shortly after her retirement from service, the PT-796 was used as a float during President John F. Kennedy's inaugural parade to represent PT-109, with the PT-109 hull number painted on the bow, and several of PT-109's surviving crew members manning the boat. Operating personnel reported extreme discomfort and fatigue. The Elco, Higgins and Huckins companies used varying lightweight techniques of hull construction which included two layers of double diagonal mahogany planking utilizing a glue-impregnated or lead painted canvas layer between inner and outer planks. A PT boat carried 3,000 US gallons (11,400L) of 100 octane aviation fuel, enough for a 4M-2500 equipped boat to conduct a maximum 12-hour patrol. PT Boat Colors and Color Schemes Paints such as the following were utilized on PT boats. The Admiralty found it interesting but thought that "no fast boat of 50' to 60' [23] There are several recorded instances of PT boats trading fire with friendly aircraft,[23] a situation also familiar to U.S. submariners. As a testament to the strength of this type of construction and watertight bulkheads, several PT boats withstood catastrophic battle damage and still remained afloat. The design was enlarged and modified to meet the new requirements. Many Higgins boats were sent to the Soviet Union and Great Britain at the beginning of the war, so many of the lower-numbered squadrons in the U.S. Navy were made up exclusively of Elcos. Period Second World War. Equipped armament for the smaller proposal was to be either two torpedoes and two depth charges, or .50-cal machine-guns and a smokescreen generator. [9], Due to the problem with ingot loading, a 185nmi (343km; 213mi) trial with the PTs fully fitted out was conducted on 12 August 1941. Much of this destruction (121 boats) occurred at PT Base 17, on Samar, Philippines, near Bobon Point.[32]. Several PT boats were lost due to friendly fire from both Allied aircraft and destroyers. On 11 October 1940, an agreement between the Navy and Huckins was finalized. An accelerometer was installed in the pilot house of each boat to record "pounding". WoodenBoat magazine No. 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. He named the vessel Schumann's "Big Blue" and ran the business until 2002. This 72-foot (22m) boat (designated MT-72) later became PT-69. 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. The discussion on rounded doors and my post with a couple of shots of a WWII PT interior got me thinking somebody might like to see a bit more of what* an Elco PT boat actually looked like inside.*. 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. The M4/M9 37mm auto cannon had a relatively high rate of fire (125 rounds per minute) and large magazine (30 rounds). Boats from Ron 22 participated in the Invasion of Elba on June 18, 1944, where PT-305 sank a German Flak lighter. 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] Measure 31/20L - This scheme combined Black, Green #2 and Green #3. Again, it is true to the original and is just the right amount of custom to make your jaw drop, along with the custom teak floor. While docked, PT boat squadrons were supported by PT boat tenders or base facilities which supplied boat crews with hot meals. The interior is another example of how far Rob went to make this boat special. On early series of boats, this cannon was mounted on the stern. PT Boat Interior Layout. Many PT boats became famous during and after World War II: According to the book "At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy"[30] 99 of the 531 PT boats that served during World War II were lost to various causes. [3] In the summer of 1915, Lieutenants Hampden, Bremner, and Anson approached John I. Thornycroft & Company about developing a small high speed torpedo boat, and this effort eventually led to the Coastal Motor Boat which first went into service in April 1916. Mufflers were used by PT's for silent running by feeding the exhaust out under the water at low speeds. It has been released as PT 207 and PT 212 and maybe others. Elco PT Boat: 80 Feet of Wood and Weaponry Weapons & Gear Manual Elco PT Boat: 80 Feet of Wood and Weaponry Of the nearly 400 fast, light and heavily armed patrol boats Elco made for the U.S. Navy during World War II, a few achieved notoriety and one survives today as a museum ship. 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. Several saw service with the Philippine Navy, where they were named "Q-boats".[2]. For example, the forward half of future President John F. Kennedy's PT-109 (Elco) stayed afloat for 12 hours after she was cut in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. PT-109 was an 80' Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific theater during World War II.Kennedy's actions in saving his surviving crew after PT-109 was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer made him a war hero. Along with PT-557, the vessel was purchased from BFM Industries (Brooklyn, NY) by Capt. [47] All of these boats are now retired from naval use, with two still in civil use today as sightseeing boats on Mar del Plata: the Leonardo da Vinci and the Mar de la Plata. The boatyards were located in Annapolis, Bristol, City Island, Miami, and Los Angeles. After May-2017 repricing for Frosted Materials, these parts had to be sprued to reduce final price. The winning design proposals would each receive a prize of $15,000 with $1500 for designs that reached the final part of the competition each to be given out on 30 March 1939. In early July 1941, the Navy accepted PT-69. Primary anti-ship armament on the standard PT boat was four 21-inch Mark 8 torpedoes, each had a 466-pound (211kg) TNT warhead and had a range of 16,000 yards (15,000m) at 36 knots (67km/h). Charles Schumann in the 1980s. The other two Elco boats, PT-30 and PT 23 (standby boat), followed PT-31, placing before PT-69. There PT-728 allows up to 49 tourists the chance to ride on a "PT boat". PT Boat Model Builder's PT Boat PT Boat Plan 10812 Type Model RC Scale Military. Originally conceived as anti-ship weapons, PT boats were publicly credited with sinking several Japanese warships during the period between December 1941 and the fall of the Philippines in May 1942[23] even though the Navy knew the claims were all false. 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. [9], Boats were also evaluated under two conditions of armament loading: loaded and fully equipped with four 21in (53cm) torpedoes and sufficient fuel to operate 500 NM at 20 knots; and fully loaded with two 21in (53cm) torpedoes and ten 300lb (140kg) depth charges with sufficient fuel to operate 500nmi (930km; 580mi) at 20kn (37km/h; 23mph). Because of this boat's extensive combat history, having survived 22 months in the combat zone at Guadalcanal (more time in combat than any other surviving PT boat), a preservation group, "Fleet Obsolete" of Kingston, New York, acquired and transported it to Rondout Creek in 2009 for eventual repair. 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. The 4M-2500 initially generated 1,200hp (890kW). PT-459 ("Mahogany Menace") a Higgins 78-foot (24m) boat, was assigned to MTBRON 30 on 15 February 1944. Finish adequate. [5] Doyle, David.. PT Boats in Action. After the war, American military interviews with captured veterans of the Imperial Japanese Navy, supplemented by the available partial Japanese war records, were unable to verify that all the PT boat sinking claims were valid. The second UK built boat is in private hands, floating on a canal north of London and being used as a private residence, though it is remarkably intact in its World War II configuration. This was done to minimize the amount of upkeep the Navy would have to do, since wooden boats require much continuous maintenance, and they were not considered worth the effort. So here are a few more of my collection. Huckins reported a profit of $28.60 on this transaction.[7]. 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]. 2008. p. False claims in Fleming, Thomas, "War of Revenge", Spring 2011, At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy by Captain Robert J. 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[citation needed]. For other similar vessels, see, United States naval ship classes of World War II, Board of Inspection and Survey's findings. The 5M-2500 introduced in late 1945 had a larger supercharger, aftercooler, and increased power output of 1,850hp (1,380kW). 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. The PT boats at Guadalcanal were given credit for several sinkings and successes against the vaunted Tokyo Express. Maneuverability satisfactory, turning circle not determined photographically, estimated 300 yards. [44] After the war ended PT-796 was used in the Key West/Miami area for experimental purposes. During World War II, PT boats engaged enemy warships, transports, tankers, barges, and sampans. Those are:[9]. 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