For 18 years, PT boat veterans and volunteers with. Save the PT Boat, Inc., have worked to restore the torpedo motor boat with full armament and three 1,850 horsepower Packard V-12 engines.

Volunteers at the National World War II Museum put in more than 100,000 hours to restore the boat made in New Orleans, and five of them made up its crew Thursday. Skip to content.

Sailor remembers combat aboard PT boat Essentially, a PT (patrol torpedo) boat was a surfboard with an airplane engine and machine gun attached. Actually, three 1,500-horsepower engines, each ...

The boat, PT 728, is owned by Fleet Obsolete, based in Kingston on the Hudson River.Built in Annapolis and launched Sept. 25, 1945, it was slated to go to the Soviet Navy under the Lend-Lease ...

For decades, countless motorists and boaters have passed North Cove, a small recess along the Manhattan side of the Harlem River, unaware that a piece of presidential history may well have been emb… ...

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley received his for evacuating Gen. Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines ...

NEW ORLEANS – After all these years, she still hasn’t lost a step. Senior Captain George Benedetto pushes the throttle forward, and PT-305 – the only combat-hardened World War II boat of its ...

WEBVTT VETERAN, WHODONATED A PIECE OF HISTORY.SERVED ON PT BEDS, IT WAS ADEFINING -- PT BOATS, IT WAS ADEFINING PERIOD IN MY LIFE.>> PT STANDS FOR PATROL TORPEDO,SHE ACTIVELY HUNTE GERMAN BOTHAT ...

They’ve also spent time over the past several months learning the ways of the U.S.S. Sudden Jerk — a name that PT-305 received from the first crew to serve on it during World War II.

The last PT boat attack ended at 2:13 a.m. For the loss of three men dead and 20 wounded, the boats had scored no hits, but they accomplished their primary mission — pinpointing and reporting ...