American PT boats in the Pacific were failing against Japanese supply barges during the Guadalcanal campaign. This story follows Lieutenant Robert Lynch, his crew aboard PT-48, and the desperate ...

When you think of Naval vessels, you're likely to conjure up gargantuan aircraft carriers and submarines. Chances are you would never think of a PT boat, and that's if you even know what one is. The ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Achieving a 100-year milestone is a remarkable accomplishment that places an individual in an elite group of “centenarians.” The milestone presents an opportunity to honor a ...

The Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has commissioned four new patrol boats for the Marine Police Unit of the Ghana Police Service in Tema, as part of efforts to strengthen ...

The Alaska Department of Transportation is seeking public input on its long-term Interior Alaska Transportation Plan, which will help shape the state’s 2036 Long Range Transportation Plan. Along with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since ...

Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific. (U.S. Naval Reserve) On Sept. 15, 1944, the 31st U.S. Infantry Division landed on the ...

In 1942, federal workers expanded a natural waterway into a series of dams, holding ponds, a spillway and a concrete-lined channel to supply water to a PT base where a young John F. Kennedy trained.

PT-305 recently added another and perhaps final leg to its remarkable journey. The patrol torpedo boat was built in New Orleans in 1943 at the Higgins Industries City Park plant. Tested on Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The last PT boat -- PTF-26 -- arrived Monday at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel is a U.S. Navy gunboat and training vessel. It played a crucial ...