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 sank ...

The initials "PT" stood for Patrol Torpedo, and during World War II, the United States Navy had 43 PT squadrons, each squadron containing 12 boats. Wooden-hulled, 80 feet long, capable of 41 knots at ...

Struggling with a calamitous downturn in tourist traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the National World War II Museum suspended cruises on its restored 78-year-old PT boat in April 2020 and ...

"The Hooligan Navy" is a nickname usually applied to the World War II Coast Guard Picket Patrol, a ragtag fleet of yachts, fishing boats and other small civilian vessels called into service early in ...

Read the original article on Coffee or Die Magazine. Follow Coffee or Die on Instagram. During World War II, 26-year-old John F. Kennedy was nearly killed in action when a Japanese destroyer collided ...