Inside elco PT Boat at battleship Cove - YouTube
Oct 12, 2010 · This is a tour of the inside of the Elco PT Boat at Battleship Cove in Fall River MA. The inside is generally closed to the public.
PT boat - Wikipedia
PT-105, an 80' Elco boat, under way. A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. 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 ...
Elco PT Boat: 80 Feet of Wood and Weaponry - HistoryNet
May 1, 2013 · During World War II the Elco Naval Division of the Electric Boat Co., in Bayonne, N.J., built nearly 400 patrol torpedo, or PT, boats for the U.S. Navy. Of those, 326 were 80 feet long—the largest in their class.
PT Interior - Trawler Forum
Nov 13, 2011 · Other than that, PT 617 is a typical Elco boat. The "dayroom" is the midships cabin that sits a few feet higher than the deck.* The main fuel tank was under it with smaller tanks on either side, between the cabin sidewalls and the hull.
PT Boats of World War II: From Home Front to Battle - U.S.
Two basic and distinctly different types of PT Boats were built for combat with the predominant PT, the 80-foot long "Elco" boat, and the slightly smaller 78-foot long "Higgins” boat. By the end of World War II, 399 Elco PTs had been built.
PT-617 and PT-796 - Battleship Cove
Motor torpedo boat PT-617, also known as Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat on display and represents the United States's most heavily used, highly favored, and combat-tested PT boat type in World War II."
Elco 80' PT Boat Specifications - pt103
His research shows that Elco 80' boats were equipped with 28" diameter propellers until PT 613 (direct drive boats) which used 29" diameter propellers. Pitch = inches traveled per revolution (with no slip) and relates to the blades angle to the hub.
PT Boat PT-617 (an Elco PT Boat) at the Battleship Cove Naval …
You can visit this Elco PT Boat PT-617 at the Battleship Cove Naval Museum in Fall River, MA. This PT Boat ( Patrol Torpedo ) had been sent to a professional ship yard for a complete restoration and has been completed to a very high standard.
ELCO PT Boat (Patrol Torpedo) - Military Factory
May 4, 2021 · A standard ELCO PT boat of 1943 displaced between 38 to 51 tons with a running length of 80 feet, a beam of 20.75 feet and a draught of just 5 feet - the latter a true tactical advantage if attacked by enemy torpedoes, which require a …
floating drydock ptboats
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