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Topic: WARBOND TOUR PT BOAT PLAQUE |
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Feb 25, 2015 - 3:41pm
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This Item is in a museum in Wisconsin. I wonder what boat it was presented to.
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TED
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rickas
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Posted on: Feb 27, 2015 - 2:49pm
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I found this photo, showing a ceremony in Annapolis, MD.
http://www.oshkoshmuseum.org/Virtual/exhibit6/e60933a.htm
I'm guessing that it would be a Vosper. Were any boats other than Vospers built in Annapolis?
Rick Schaefer
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Frank Andruss
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Posted on: Feb 27, 2015 - 5:25pm
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I think they built something like 50 Torpedo boats which were all Vosper boats, but they built sub chasers, tugs, patrol craft and few other small boats. To my knowledge they only built seventy foot boats, and no PT BOATS. I could be wrong here, but I do not recall any PT's there.
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Feb 27, 2015 - 9:18pm
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Rick;
Thanks, I went into the site, and saw a nice photo of a US flagged 70' Vosper running under the George Washington Bridge on Hudson River.
Annapolis Yacht Yard, Inc., Annapolis, MD built 3 groups of 70' Vosper for a total of 141 boats. most were transferred lend lease. 21 more were built at Robert Jacob Shipyard, City Island, New York, and another 19 were built at Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI
According to the write up and time frame stated with the photos this was the PT 622-692 series which once accepted by the Russian/Soviet Navy, were given Soviet designation numbers TK-247 to TK-264.
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TED
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rickas
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Posted on: Mar 4, 2015 - 7:27am
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I sent an email to the contact at the bottom of the picture, this is what I got back.
"Unfortunately, the information on the catalog record is all the information we have. It does not appear that the local newspaper kept up on the whereabouts of the boat after it was commissioned.
Scott Cross
Archivist
Oshkosh Public Museum"
Apparently this will remain a mystery for the time being.
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Mar 4, 2015 - 4:06pm
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Rick;
Nice try, but if it went to Russian, more than It did not come back.
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