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These are about 30mb / 6000 pixel widths:
PT 103
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-85000/NH-85782.html[/url]
PT 129
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-90000/NH-90941.html[/url]
PT 131
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-340000/80-G-345819.html[/url]
PT 601
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-256000/80-G-256499.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 3, 2016 - 1:20pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
A couple of other images:
T-4 (Swedish motor torpedo boat, 1939-1949)
T-3 and T-4 were Vosper type MTB's. Sisters T-1 and T-2 became the British MGB-44 and MGB-45. Built from designs provided by Vosper, LTD. of England, these vessels are powered with two Issota-Franchini engines for a speed of 40 knots. They are armed with two 18-inch tubes, anti-aircraft guns and depth charges.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-88000/NH-88430.html[/url]
Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Fourteen; Russian PT Boats 1-12
Caption: World War II emblem. RPTs 1-12 were originally USS PTs 85-94, 197 and 198, which were to be assigned to MTB Squadron 14, but were transferred abroad instead.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73311-KN.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 3, 2016 - 1:46pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
A few more assorted:
Two PT boats (Elco Type)
Make a simulated attack on USS HORNET (CV-12), off the South end of the Panama Canal, on 20 February 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-242000/80-G-242587.html[/url]
Recruiting Poster featuring Motor Torpedo Boat (PT) commander Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-86000/NH-86429.html[/url]
U.S. Navy Elco type PT boat Escorts ships transporting salvage units to Cherbourg, France, circa summer 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-250000/80-G-254261.html[/url]
TM 5 (Dutch MTB, 1940-1942)
This ship was built at Soerabaja in 1940 and scuttled there in 1942.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-87000/NH-87881.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 3, 2016 - 5:04pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
After Ted pointed out some Higgins images I missed, I searched again with different terms and found a number of other high res images. Thanks Ted! Search "PT-625" for a lot more high-res interior shots:
Title: T.B. ELCO
Caption: The prototype ELCO motor torpedo boat underway circa 1940. This is probably the Scott-Paine boat that later became USS PT-9.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-85000/NH-85182.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-95
Caption: Running trials off Jacksonville, Florida, 14 July 1942.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-85000/NH-85780.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-95
Caption: Running trials off Jacksonville, Florida, 14 July 1942
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-85000/NH-85781.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-109
Description: Official model, as mounted for exhibit during the 1960s. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in 1970. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/usn/USN-1140000/USN-1145017.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-157
Description: Crew members pose on the boat's foredeck, at Rendova, Solomon Islands, in July 1943, while operating in support of the New Georgia operation. Note PT-157's Aces & Eights insignia painted below her number on the cabin front. Photographed by T/Sgt. J. Sarno, USMC. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/usmc-series/USMC-000001/USMC-57386.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-167
Caption: Is struck by an enemy torpedo, on 5 November 1943, while in action with Japanese torpedo planes off Bougainville, Solomon Islands. The torpedo passed through the boat without exploding. Painting by Captain Gerard Richardson, USNR-R, circa 1966.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-64000/NH-64787-KN.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-194
Description: Refueling from USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) on 20 October 1944 while enroute from Palau to Leyte Gulf. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-340000/80-G-345815.html[/url]
Title: Normandy Invasion, June 1944
Description: USS PT-199 speeds past invasion shipping, carrying Admiral Harold Stark, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Europe, to the Normandy beachhead for an inspection tour, 14 June 1944. A British hospital ship is in the left distance. Photographed by Combat Photo Unit Eleven (CPU-11). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-250000/80-G-253227.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-212
Caption: With several British officers on board, during World War II. Note: cockpit details; radar; .50 caliber machine guns; mast structure.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-79000/NH-79407.html[/url]
Title: Multipul "bazooka" Rocket Launcher
Caption: In use on USS PT-354, of PT squadron 25, at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, on 17 December 1943. Note: the boat's mast and radar; flag and commissioning pennant signal lamp
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-207000/80-G-207575.html[/url]
Title: Morotai Operation, September 1944.
Caption: USS PT-369 heads south from Morotai toward Japanese-held Halmahera, on it’s first combat patrol from the newly established Morotai base. Photograph dated 15 September 1944, but probably taken a day or two later. Note nickname "Sad Sack" on cabin, numeral "9" on radar antenna cover, binoculars of bridge crew, and 37mm gun at left.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-257000/80-G-257978.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-463
Caption: World War II photo
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-84000/NH-84838.html[/url]
Description: (AM-125) Sinking off Utah Beach after striking a mine during the Normandy invasion, 7 June 1944. USS PT-509 and USS Pheasant (AM-61) are standing by. Photographed from USS Threat (AM-124). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/d-day/80-G-651677.html[/url]
Title: Leyte Invasion, 1944
Caption: USS PT-523 receiving a message by high line from USS WACHAPREAGUE (AGP-8) at sea, en route to Leyte, October 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-345000/80-G-345817.html[/url]
Title: USS OAK HILL (LSD-7)
Caption: PT Boats aboard USS OAK HILL (LSD-7) at Espiritu Santo, Island, 23-24 July 1945. PT 534 entering well. Published in "At Close Quarters".
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-326000/80-G-326547.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-631
Caption: Type photo for the PT-625 class, showing the interior of the chart house. Note radio equipment.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71658.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-644
Caption: Type photo for the PT-625 class, showing the boat in her hoisting cradle.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71655.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-625 class
Caption: Type photo, showing the bridge controls.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71661.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-625 class
Caption: Type photo, showing the bridge controls.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71662.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-625 class
Caption: Type photo, propellers and rudders.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71653.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-625 class
Caption: Type photo, propellers and rudders.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71654.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-625 class
Caption: Type photo, propellers and rudders.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71652.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-625 class
Caption: Type photo, note 20 mm gun.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-71000/NH-71651.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-810
Caption: Of motor torpedo squadron one, on a high speed run in the Chesapeake Bay, 21 April 1951. Lieutenant . Franklin W. Joyce, USN, is commanding officer of the boat.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-428000/80-G-428137.html[/url]
Title: Biak Operation, August 1944.
Caption: A PT boat comes alongside USS GALLUP (PF-47) awaiting further orders after the landings at Biak, Schouten Islands, 17 August 1944. Note: 37 mm Gun on PT.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-256000/80-G-256516.html[/url]
Title: Tests of rocket firing from PT boat
Caption: Taken by USS WACHAPREAGUE (AGP-8).
Description: From "At Close Quarters" page 433
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-345000/80-G-345827.html[/url]
Title: USS OAK HILL (LSD-7)
Caption: PT Cradles aboard USS OAK HILL (LSD-7) Espiritu Santo, Island, 23-24 July 1945. Published in "At Close Quarters" page 49A
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-326000/80-G-326546.html[/url]
Title: USS ACONTIUS (AGP-12)
Caption: Underway, in camouflage, as seen by ZP-12 blimp on 12 May 1944, from an altitude of 250 feet. Note cradle for PT-boats, forward.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-453000/80-G-453343.html[/url]
Title: USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6)
Description: Anchored in Leyte Gulf in December 1944 with PT boats alongside. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-470000/80-G-472496.html[/url]
Title: Leyte Invasion, 1944
Caption: PT boats entering Liloan Bay, Leyte, on 23 October 1944. Photographed from USS WACHAPREAGUE (AGP-8).
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-345000/80-G-345818.html[/url]
Title: Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines
Description: Vertical aerial photograph, taken 27 October 1941. The larger ship docked at the Navy Yard (in the right side of the image) is USS Canopus (AS-9), with two destroyers flanking the nearby pier. Six motor torpedo boats (PT) are tied up to the pier in upper right center. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-100000/80-G-178321.html[/url]
Smaller photos
Title: Camouflage Measure 31, Design 4P
Description: Drawing prepared circa 1943-1944 by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for motor torpedo boats of the PT 71-94 (Higgins) class. This plan shows the boat's starboard side, bow, stern and exposed decks. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-100000/80-G-152115.html[/url]
Title: Camouflage Measure 31, Design 4P
Description: Drawing prepared circa 1943-1944 by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for motor torpedo boats of the PT 71-94 (Higgins) class. This plan shows the boat's port side. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-100000/80-G-152114.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-108 USS PT-107
Description: Photo #: 19-N-33168 USS PT-108 (left) and USS PT-107 (right) Stowed on board the Liberty Ship Joseph Stanton for transportation to the Pacific. Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 20 August 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/19-n/19-N-30000/19-N-33168.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-564
Description: Underway during 1943-45. She is armed with two twin .50 caliber machineguns, four Mark XIII torpedoes and a single 20mm gun. This boat, the Higgins Hellcat, was smaller, lighter and faster than regular Higgins and Elco PTs. Though PT-564 ran extensive trials, the design was not selected for production. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-80000/80-G-88183.html[/url]
Title: "Semi-submersible Torpedo Boat
Description: Photo #: 19-N-43816 Semi-submersible Torpedo Boat (U.S. Navy Craft # C-25465) Close-up view of the boat's conning tower, in the open position. Photographed at the Robert Jacob shipyard, City Island, New York, circa March 1943. In the background are two Vosper type PT boats and, at right, the minesweeper YMS-215 (later USS Crow, AMS-7), which is fitting out. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/19-n/19-N-40000/19-N-43816.html[/url]
Color Photos
Title: Mark XIII Torpedo
Description: Sailor removes securing lines and clamps in preparation for launching the torpedo from a Higgins class motor torpedo (PT) boat operating from the Subchaser Training Center, Miami, Florida, circa 1944. He is wearing bathing trunks, life jacket and steel helmet. Photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 16 November 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g-k/80-G-K-06000/80-G-K-6658.html[/url]
Title: Mark XIII Torpedo
Description: Ready for launching from a Higgins class motor torpedo (PT) boat operating from the Subchaser Training Center, Miami, Florida, circa 1944. Note the exhaust from the torpedo's engine. Photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 16 November 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g-k/80-G-K-06000/80-G-K-6659.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-505
Description: USS PT-505 Under tow, after she struck a mine off St. Marcouf Island in the English Channel on 7 June 1944. She had settled heavily by the stern, as indicated by the dirty water line on her hull. Note the inscription Portland or Bust on her side. PT-505 was towed back to Portland, England, on 11 June 1944. Collection of Captain Mark Armistead, USNR (Deceased), 1985. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-101000/NH-101278-KN.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 6, 2016 - 9:34am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Thanks, J.D.
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Jan 6, 2016 - 10:44am
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Jeff;
enlarge that Cavite photo, you can even see the six cradles sitting on the concrete in the center of the photo.
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Jan 7, 2016 - 10:28am
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Good eyes Ted!
Mike
Posted By: Michael Vorrasi | Posted on: Jan 7, 2016 - 11:05am
Total Posts: 72 | Joined: Jul 1, 2013 - 11:46am
Yes Ted, you have the eyes of an eagle!
If anyone has trouble opening the high res .tif images, the free Irfanview will: [url]http://www.irfanview.com/[/url]. I recommend installing the plugin pack also. The program has a lot of features such as opening a page of thumbnails of all the images in the folder the image you are viewing is in, simply press T. Just pay attention when installing, there might be a pre-checked checkbox asking if you want to install a Yahoo toolbar or similar. Uncheck it if not wanted.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 7, 2016 - 11:50am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff -
Thanks for the photos! Only the second photo of my cousin's PT 523 I've ever seen! 523 was strafed at Leyte.
Posted By: Robert Orrell | Posted on: Jan 8, 2016 - 3:01am
Total Posts: 80 | Joined: Jul 2, 2008 - 6:18am
You are very welcome Robert, would your cousin have been aboard her at the time?
I hope they continue to add more from their vast stash! And to organize like navsource does would be very handy. A link for anyone that doesn't know of this great resource: [url]http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05idx.htm[/url].
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 8, 2016 - 6:31am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff,
Thanks for the great photos. Especially the shot of the four PT cradles in the well deck of the USS Oak Hill. My copy of "AT CLOSE QUARTERS" (Paperback, 2003) doesn't have that shot on page 49.
I always thought the LSD's would have made an ideal conversion to AGP's.
Ross Fisher
Posted By: ROSS FISHER | Posted on: Jan 8, 2016 - 11:20am
Total Posts: 82 | Joined: Jul 23, 2008 - 10:03am
Yes - Lt Robert W. Orrell. Leyte effectively ended his career. Eight killed and eight wounded, including Ron 36 CO and a war correspondent.
Posted By: Robert Orrell | Posted on: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:39pm
Total Posts: 80 | Joined: Jul 2, 2008 - 6:18am
Thanks Jeff. Founds some gems in there like the cradles on LHD-7.
Dave
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 7:00am
Total Posts: 1679 | Joined: Jan 2, 2007 - 9:55pm
Thanks Jeff. Founds some gems in there like the cradles on LHD-7.
Dave
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 7:00am
Total Posts: 1679 | Joined: Jan 2, 2007 - 9:55pm
I'm glad to have found them too guys!
I read the brief account of the attack on the 523 in At Close Quarters Robert, rotten luck with the short letup of the rain.... I'm happy your cousin survived. I tried zooming the picture but the crews faces are too blurry in that image to be of any real use. Still cool knowing he was on her, also seeing the communication method they were using. I'm guessing they were under radio silence?
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 9:41am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Aaaand some more:
Edit: Per Ted, this is actually PT 245
Title: Allan R. Montgomery, Lieutenant Commander, USN
Caption: Squadron commander of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 2 aboard PT-45, June-July 1942.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-67000/NH-67701.html[/url]
PT 133
Caption: PT boats off eastern New Guinea, June 1943.
Description: Courtesy of Rear Admiral Arthur H. McCollum, USN (Ret), 1969.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-68000/NH-68781.html[/url]
Title: Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
Caption: Damage suffered by USS PT-152 from an enemy shell explosion during the Battle of Surigao Strait, 24-25 October.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-345000/80-G-345822.html[/url]
PT 152, 153, 154, 155
Caption: PT boats are loaded aboard a special auxiliary deck built over the main deck of a Navy oiler which carried them to the Philippines. (This scene was taken in New York Harbor prior to the outbreak of war).
Description: Page 64 "At Close Quarters"
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-184000/80-G-184393.html[/url]
Title: Cherbourg, France
Description: U.S. Navy motor torpedo boats (PT) and U.S. Coast Guard 83-foot patrol boats use the waterfront as a temporary base, while operating out of Cherbourg, 30 August 1944. PT boat at left is PT-199. Note the depth charges on the sterns of the USCG patrol boats in the foreground. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-250000/80-G-256074.html[/url]
Title: Normandy Invasion, 1944.
Caption: Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, commander of the invasion task force, (under left leg of mast), and Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN, commander, U.S. Naval forces, Europe, (under right leg of mast) en route to Normandy on a PT boat, on 14 June 1944. This boat may be USS PT-199. Note radar, spotlight, and horn.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-253000/80-G-253230.html[/url]
Title: PT-601, July 1945
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-453000/80-G-453471.html[/url]
Non-identified PTs
Edit: Per Will this is PT 376
Caption: Navy personnel aboard a 7th Fleet PT boat watch as a raft from the boat puts in to the shore of Corregidor to pick up paratroopers who overshot the top of the Island in the airborne assault. 16 February 1945. "At Close Quarters" page 423.
Description: "At Close Quarters" page 423.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-273000/80-G-273306.html[/url]
Caption: Unloading beached PT's at Amsterdam Island, Cape San Sapor, Dutch New Guinea.
Description: "At Close Quarters" page 255. Caption not exactly as it appears in book.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-257000/80-G-257024.html[/url]
Caption: PT's firing at Biak, 17 August 1944.
Description: "At Close Quarters" page 258.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-256000/80-G-256496.html[/url]
Title: Normandy Invasion, June 1944
Description: U.S. Navy PT boats crossing the English Channel on D-Day, 6 June 1944, as twelve B-17 bombers pass overhead. Note the twin .50 caliber machine guns on the boat from which the photograph was taken. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/d-day/NH-44308.html[/url]
Not PT photos but related
Title: Paratrooper pick up.
Caption: A raft from a Navy PT boat makes for the shore of Corregidor to pick up paratroopers who overshot the top of the "rock" in the airborne assault on 16 February 1945. "At Close Quarters" page 424
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-273000/80-G-273308.html[/url]
Title: Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea,
Caption: Torpedo dump at PT naval base on Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-258000/80-G-258710.html[/url]
Title: Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea,
Caption: Evaporator and water tower, at PT naval base on Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-258000/80-G-258692.html[/url]
Title: When a PT secures to its tender, meals are provided by the "mother-ship."
Caption: These crewmen are "rushing a growler" of hot breakfast. From page 179, "At Close Quarters."
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-472000/80-G-472468.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boats (PT)
Caption: Plaque which hung in the PT section of the Bureau of Ships during World War II.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-94000/NH-94907-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Russian PT Boats 13-30.
Caption: World War II emblem for former U.S. Navy motor torpedo boats transferred to the U.S.S.R.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73312-KN.html[/url]
Smaller photos
Title: Camouflage Measure 32, Design 5AO
Description: Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for oilers of the AO 22-32 and 51-64 class. It could also be adapted to the AO 66-72 class and other vessels of similar construction. This plan, approved by Captain Logan McKee, USN, is dated 21 February 1944. It shows the ship's starboard side, stern and superstructure ends. Note that a color scheme for embarked motor torpedo boats (PT) is also specified. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-100000/80-G-165982.html[/url]
Title: Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley, USN
Description: Photographed while on board a Motor Torpedo Boat (probably PT-64), circa 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-10000/80-G-14999.html[/url]
There are a lot of documents on the site also, such as this one:
Motor Torpedo Squadron ONE, Report for Pearl Harbor Attack
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/digitized-collections/action-reports/wwii-pearl-harbor-attack/motor-torpedo-squadron-one-action-report.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 12:18pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff;
That first one is mislabelled, its really 78' Higgins PT 245 RON 20 at Miami Shakedown summer 1943.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 1:22pm
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Thanks Ted, I added your correction. You and Will sure know your boats!
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 3:49pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
The early mast with the early radar on 3 of the boats in the PT 152, 153, 154, 155 image, also the armor plate replacement:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_152_155_Radar_Cropped.jpg[/image]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 4:16pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff: Great pics, thanks!
PT-376 is the boat (first "Uncaptioned" photo) standing off the rocks on Corregidor during the airborne assault.
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Jan 11, 2016 - 7:58pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Thank you Will! I edited the link notes.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jan 12, 2016 - 5:49am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
A few more high res photos added this year:
Title: USS PT-6 Underway at high speed, in 1941
Caption: USS PT-6 Underway at high speed, in 1941. She was an experimental boat, built by Higgins to a Sparkman & Stephens Design.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-100000/NH-100907.html[/url]
Title: PT 6
Caption: Not in book, At Close Quarters.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-23000/19-N-23237.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-8 Underway in 1940-1941
Caption: USS PT-8 Underway in 1940-1941. She was an experimental boat, with an aluminum hull.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-100000/NH-100908.html[/url]
Title: Navy PT Boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two
Caption: Visiting the Washington Navy Yard DC circa December 1940 or January 1941. These boats are of the PT 9-19 series. Docked beyond the PT boats are USS POTOMAC (AG-25) and CUYAHOGA (AG-26).
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44947.html[/url]
Title: Navy PT Boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two
Caption: Visiting the Washington Navy Yard DC circa December 1940 or January 1941. These boats are of the PT 9-19 series. Docked beyond the PT boats are USS POTOMAC (AG-25) and CUYAHOGA (AG-26).
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44948.html[/url]
Title: Navy PT Boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two
Caption: Departing the Washington Navy Yard DC circa December 1940 or January 1941. These boats are of the PT 9-19 series. Docked beyond the PT boats are USS POTOMAC (AG-25) and CUYAHOGA (AG-26).
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44949.html[/url]
Title: USS PT 9
Caption: Paces USS PT - 3, circa summer 1940.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44480.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-9
Caption: Underway in New York Harbor, circa late 1940. She is flying the flag of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44951.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 9
Caption: Making a high speed run, circa late 1940
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44450.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-9
Caption: Speeds past the Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, circa 1940.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44952.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 9
Caption: Is unloaded from S.S. President Roosevelt by the crane barge COLOSSUS, in New York Harbor, 5 Sept. 1939. This boat, of the British Scott - Paine type, served as Prototype for the ELCO Class Pts of World War II
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44479.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-12
Caption: Speeds past the Battery, in New York Harbor, circa late 1940.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44953.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 14
Caption: Making a high speed run, circa late 1940
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44449.html[/url]
PT 14
Title: HMS MTB-263 (British Motor Torpedo Boat, 1940, ex-USS PT-14) Ready for delivery to The Royal Navy, circa Mid-1941
Caption: HMS MTB-263 (British Motor Torpedo Boat, 1940, ex-USS PT-14) Ready for delivery to The Royal Navy, circa Mid-1941. She has been modified to British specifications, with R.N. Type 21 Torpedo Tubes, a 20mm machine cannon and other changes.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-100000/NH-100911.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-17
Caption: Underway, circa early 1941.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44954.html[/url]
PT 17
Title: USS NIAGARA (PG-52)
Caption: With PT-17 alongside, circa 1941. NIAGARA was the Navy's first PT boat tender. Published in At Close Quarters, p 69.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-82000/NH-82196-A.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 19
Caption: Making a high speed run, circa late 1940
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44445.html[/url]
Title: USS PT -20
Caption: Underway at high speed, circa 1941. She won the Plywood Derby in July 1941, which compared the sea performance of a number of pt boat designs
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44481.html[/url]
PT 25, 30
Title: Battle of Midway, June 1942
Description: Cutter from the sunken Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu, suspended from the starboard boat davits of USS Ballard (AVD-10), at Midway circa late June 1942. This boat had been picked up on 19 June, along with its occupants, who became prisoners of war. USS PT-25 and PT-30 are among the 77-foot ELCO-type PT boats visible in the right and left background. Note Ballard's motor whaleboat, cane fender, dark-colored awnings and smokestack details. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/midway/80-G-79981-21.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-28
Caption: Refueling at the oil dock of NAS Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. April 1942. Note open forecastle hatch cover, variety of motor launches in right background.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-64000/80-G-64747.html[/url]
Title: USS PT- 40
Caption: A battle - scarred Veteran of the Guadalcanal Campaign, returns to the MTB training center, Melville, R.I., in July 1944, for use in training repair personnel. YD -84 is providing a lift.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44495.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 40
Caption: Receives new planking from students of the MTB repair training unit, Melville, R. I., circa summer 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44497.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-42
Caption: At a fueling dock at Pearl Harbor, April 1944. YO-44 is on the opposite side of the pier.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-64000/80-G-64748.html[/url]
PT 43 maybe
Title: 77' Elco Pt Boat beached behind the former Japanese lines, February 16, 1943
Caption: 77' Elco Pt Boat beached behind the former Japanese lines on Guadalcanal, February 16, 1943. This is probably USS PT-43, which was damaged in action with Japanese ships on January 11, 1943, beached and destroyed by Naval gunfire to prevent possible use by the enemy. Photographed by MarGun J.F. Leopold, 2nd MarDiv.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/USMC-53000/USMC-53371.html[/url]
PT 62 maybe
Title: 20mm Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
Caption: In action on a Pt-boat's afterdeck, during training maneuvers off Melville, Rhode Island, during World War II. Note well - tatooed man handling 20mm magazine in center. Stenciled lettering on magazine indicates that this may be PT-62, which was at Melville in 1942-43.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-13000/80-G-K-13626.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-65
Caption: Loading a Mk. VIII torpedo at Melville, Rhode Island, in October 1942. Copied from a frame of 16mm motion picture film received in 1985.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-100000/NH-100445.html[/url]
PT 65
Title: I-1 (Japanese SS, 1924) is examined by Army Intelligence personnel as USS PT-65 stands by, February 11, 1943
Caption: I-1 (Japanese SS, 1924) is examined by Army Intelligence personnel as USS PT-65 stands by, February 11, 1943. The submarine had been sunk in Kamimbo Bay, Guadalcanal, by New Zealand corvettes KIWI and MOA on January 29, 1943, while on a supply mission. Her hulk yielded documents of great intelligence value.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/SC-243000/SC-243966.html[/url]
PT 66 maybe
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: USS PT-66 moored at the Morobe Waterfront, July-August 1943. Note her camouflage, and camouflage screens hung from trees in background. PT-66 was then a unit of motor torpedo boat squadron eight.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53844.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-69 Underway at high speed, 1941
Caption: USS PT-69 Underway at high speed, 1941. She was an experimental boat, designed and built by the Huckins Yacht Corporation.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-100000/NH-100909.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-84- JOE SHEEHAN
Caption: Underway in 1942.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-88000/80-G-88718.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-109
Description: Stowed on board the Liberty Ship Joseph Stanton, at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 20 August 1942. Note heavy bracing at the PT boat's stern and on her deck, to prevent movement as she is transported to the Pacific. Also note her torpedo tubes, engine mufflers and 20mm gun mount, with 109 painted on it. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/19-n/19-N-30000/19-N-33167.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-112 (left) and USS (PT-111) (right)
Caption: Embarked on USS TALLULAH (AO-50), at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 10 October 1942. Note heavy timbers and cables to tie the PTs down, PT torpedo tube details, and pipe training stop by PT-111's 20mm gun.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-35000/19-N-35467.html[/url]
Title: USS TALLULAH (AO-50)
Caption: At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 10 October 1942, with PT-111 and PT-112 embarked. Note paravane under the PT boat, dirty camouflage paint, life raft by bridge face
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-35000/19-N-35466.html[/url]
Title: USS TALLULAH (AO-50)
Caption: At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 10 October 1942, with USS PT-111 and PT-112 embarked.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-35000/19-N-35464.html[/url]
Title: USS TALLULAH (AO-50)
Caption: At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 13 October 1942, showing camouflage screens rigged forward to conceal PT-111 and PT-112, embarked on her foredeck. Note stern of British battleship in dry dock in right foreground.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-35000/19-N-35468.html[/url]
Title: USS TALLULAH (AO-50)
Caption: Camouflage screens rigged over and around PT-112 (left) and PT-111 (right) to conceal them while embarked on the oiler's foredeck. Taken at Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 13 October 1942.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-35000/19-N-35471.html[/url]
Title: USS TALLULAH (AO-50)
Caption: At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 10 October 1942. She has PT-111 and PT-112 embarked forward. Another oiler is astern of her. A British battleship and another foreign warship are in the dry docks at extreme left. Also note the refrigerated boxcar at extreme left center.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-35000/19-N-35465.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-117 Photographed in August 1942
Caption: USS PT-117 Photographed in August 1942, upon completion of construction.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-100000/NH-100910.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 117
Caption: Beached at Rendova with a gaping hole in her bow, following a bombing attack, 1 August 1943
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44493.html[/url]
PT 133
Title: TUFI PT Advance Base, Cape Nelson, New Guinea
Caption: Native workers roll gasoline drums on board USS PT - 133 for fueling, circa early 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44499.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-134
Caption: Crewman adds symbols for KILLED railway boxcars to the boat's scoreboard, after she raided Japanese transportation. Facilities at Cebu City . Officer may be the boat's c/o, Lt. Edward J. Pope. Note . 50cal machine guns radio antenna and torpedo
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-04000/80-G-K-4341.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 140
Caption: Underway off Melville, R.I., During Aug-Sept. 1943. SHW was assigned to M.T.B. Squadron Four, The PT Training Squadron Based at Melville. Note her so radar antenna RADOME atop the mast, and depth charges carried aft in place of her second pair of torpedo tubes.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-13000/80-G-K-13625.html[/url]
Title: USS PT - 164
Caption: With demolished bow, following a Japanese Air Attack on Rendova Harbor, 1 August 1943. An LCM is assisting
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44494.html[/url]
PT 192
Title: USS CYRENE (AGP-13)
Caption: 3 January 1945, PT 192 being hoisted onto forecastle for major hull repair. At close quarters.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-78000/19-N-78877.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-216. February 2, 1944
Caption: USS PT-216. Taking Lieutenant General Mark Clark to the advance command post at the Anzio Beachhead, February 2, 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/SC-212000/SC-212640.html[/url]
PT 242
Title: Crane barge
Caption: A crane barge lowers a new Packard engine into PT 242 at a Pacific base.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-58000/80-G-58532.html[/url]
PT 277 281 288
Title: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 23
Caption: Commissioning ceremonies, at Higgins Industrial Canal Plant, New Orleans, La., 28 June 1942. boats present in right front are: PT - 281, 277 & 288. Note standardized camouflage pattern of these boats.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44483.html[/url]
Title: PT boat No. 285
Caption: Underway, 19 October 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-85000/80-G-85754.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-314
Caption: Underway in July 1943, probably in Rhode Island Waters. She was then serving with MTB Squadron Four, based at Melville, R.I.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-13000/80-G-K-13597.html[/url]
Title: PT-320
Caption: Boat's wreckage, alongside a tender, after she was hit by a bomb in Leyte Gulf, 5 November 1944.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 393
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44321.html[/url]
PT 321
Title: Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944.
Caption: USS PT-321 picking up Japanese survivors in Surigao Strait, October 1944. Note second man in water alongside of PT.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-285000/80-G-285970.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-323
Caption: After being almost cut in half by a kamikaze plane, during the Leyte campaign, 10 December 1944.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 395
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44323.html[/url]
PT 325
Title: Unidentified ship
Caption: Looking down from the port wing of bridge PT 325 hoisted on port side for underwater repairs. At close quarters.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-78000/19-N-78876.html[/url]
Title: PT boat No. 337
Caption: Underway, 19 October 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-85000/80-G-85757.html[/url]
PT 354
Title: Multipul bazooka Rocket Launcher
Caption: In use on USS PT-354, of PT squadron 25, at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, on 17 December 1943. Note: the boat's mast and radar; flag and commissioning pennant signal lamp.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-207000/80-G-207575.html[/url]
PT 369
Title: Commander S.S. BOWLING,
Caption: COM M.T.B. squadrons, seventh fleet, observes Morotai operations aboard USS PT-369, 15 September 1944. Bowling is standing in center.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-283000/80-G-283915.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-490 with General Douglas MacArthur aboard (visible amidships), carrying him and his staff from Negros Island to Iloilo, Panay, in 1945
Caption: USS PT-490 with General Douglas MacArthur aboard (visible amidships), carrying him and his staff from Negros Island to Iloilo, Panay, in 1945. Note the general's five star flag flying from the mast. Also note name Little Dutch above the hull numbers.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/SC-262000/SC-262349.html[/url]
PT 525
Title: General Douglas MacArthur
Caption: On board PT-525, bound for Tacloban, Leyte, for liberation ceremonies, 24 October 1944. Those present are L-R: Lieutenant Alexander W. Wells, USNR, CO of PT-525, General MacArthur, Commander Selmon S. Bowling Commander Motor Torpedo Boat squadrons 7th fleet, and Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, Commanding General 6th Army. Note .50 cal. machinegun mount at right.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 396
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44317.html[/url]
Title: PT 575
Caption: 21 July 1945. At close quarters.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-83000/19-N-83508.html[/url]
Title: USS PT-601 photographed from USS LSM(R)-509 in Lock 41 on the Ohio River, on October 13, 1945
Caption: USS PT-601 photographed from USS LSM(R)-509 in Lock 41 on the Ohio River, on October 13, 1945. Courtesy of Captain C.W. Stoll, Louisville, Kentucky. Received from C.H. Bogart, 1972.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76091.html[/url]
Title: PT 791-796
Caption: Type photograph, by Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans. Dated 19 September 1945. The same view, with negative no. 19-N-89087, was used as type photograph for PT 625-660, dated 20 July 1945. This particular boat is PT-791
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-89000/19-N-89050.html[/url]
Title: Morobe Island, New Guinea
Caption: The Mess Hall at PT base, Morobe Island in New Guinea June-August 1943
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53792.html[/url]
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: PT boats alongside prior to leaving for patrol in Morobe, New Guinea.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53846.html[/url]
Title: Morobe, New Guinea
Caption: Scene in an advance PT Base at Morobe, New Guinea.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-55000/80-G-55627.html[/url]
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: Sailors unloading gasoline drums from an LCT, on the base waterfront, July-August 1943
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53831.html[/url]
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: Daytime scene in the radio shack, July-August 1943. Note pin-ups on wall.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53812.html[/url]
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: An LCT arrives at the PT base to deliver a supply of gasoline in drums, July-August 1943
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53829.html[/url]
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: Sailors unloading gasoline drums from an LCT. Photo released 8 July 1943. Note camouflage painted inside the LCT.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53830.html[/url]
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: Boat captains reporting to intelligence office after patrol, at PT base in Morobe, New Guinea. Left to right: John Grossball, USNR, Ensign Robert F. Lynch, USNR, Cawley, USNR, Ensign James E. Miller, USNR, De Mond, USNR, Lieutenant Junior Grade William M. Snelling, USNR. Seated: Lieutenant Junior Grade George G. Westfeldt, Jr., USNR, Lieutenant Junior Grade John H. Sembower, USNR. July and August 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53803.html[/url]
Title: Morobe PT Boat Base, New Guinea
Caption: Dispersal dock at Morobe, with a PT boat and some of her crew in the distance. Several natives are beside the path in the foreground. Photographed in July-August 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53794.html[/url]
Title: PT nest, Pacific Island
Caption: Under the overhanging camouflage net, men of the PT squadron await the call to action.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53793.html[/url]
Title: Elco Thunderbolt 20mm quadruple gun mount
Caption: Of the type carried by some motor torpedo boats (PT) during World War II.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-96000/NH-96505.html[/url]
Title: Elco Thunderbolt 20mm quadruple gun mount
Caption: Of the type carried by some motor torpedo boats (PT) during World War II.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-96000/NH-96506.html[/url]
Title: 37mm automatic cannon (aircraft type)
Caption: On the bow of a PT boat, during World War II. Crewmen are loading the gun's magazine. Mounting is an early locally produced type.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-96000/NH-96501.html[/url]
Title: A well - Tatooed Pt Boat Crewman
Caption: Handles belts of .50 cal. Machine gun ammunition, on board a PT Boat on training duty at Melville, R. I. during World War II. Note: Depth charge at left. Color coded bullet tips, in ratio of one red to three black.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-13000/80-G-K-13624.html[/url]
Title: Torpedos Away!!
Caption: An ELCO type pt boat fires a pair of MK. VIII Torpedoes in tests off the Newport Torpedo Station, R. I., during 1943-45.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44485.html[/url]
Title: Pt Boat
Caption: Under repair in a small floating dry-dock in the Philippines, circa 1944. lacking an A - Frame crane, Pt Tender LST - 201 (later USS PONTUS, (AGP - 20 ) towed a dry-dock wherever she went. Note 40mm cun on PT; also depth charges
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44491.html[/url]
Title: PT boats underway, Attu Island
Caption: PT boats underway off Attu Island during occupation.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53215.html[/url]
Title: ADAK PT Base. Alaska
Caption: A tractor hauls a pt up a ramp on a rubber - tired cradle for repairs, circa 1943-44
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44488.html[/url]
Title: Kiska Operation, August 1943
Caption: PT boats with plywood troops in place, ready to masquerade as landing craft in diversionary operations during the Kiska reoccupation. Note torpedo tubes, skiff, and foul weather gear.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 273
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44304.html[/url]
Title: PT Boats
Caption: PT boats returning to base after operations off Leyete in December 1944. Note twin mounted .50 cal. Machine guns.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-424000/80-G-424230.html[/url]
Title: TUFI PT Advance Base, Cape Nelson, New Guinea
Caption: View of the base jetty. This was the first PT Advance Base in New Guinea. Taken circa early 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44498.html[/url]
Title: Thursday Island Pt Base, off the tip of Cape York, Australia.
Caption: A pt is hauled out on the base marine railway, as Lt. Thomas A. Arnold, USNR, MTB Sq. 7 engineering officer, looks on circa 1943
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44487.html[/url]
Title: Mindanao Operations, 1945.
Caption: PT boats speed through Polloc Harbor, Mindanao, while supporting landings ther, 17 April 1945. boat in background appears to be PT-150. Note twin .50cal machine gun in foreground.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-04000/80-G-K-4342.html[/url]
Title: PT Base #17, Bobon Point, Samar PI
Caption: Circa mid 1945. This was claimed to be the largest and most complete motor torpedo boat base in the world.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 419
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44318.html[/url]
Title: Maddalena, Sardinia
Caption: US Navy PT boats at Maddalena circa late 1943, with a surrendered Italian corvette. The damaged building at left was repaired and used as a PT engineering repair shop.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 296
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44305.html[/url]
Title: Southern France Invasion, August 1944
Caption: Southern France Invasion, August 1944. A PT boat, carrying whole blood, approaches a beach in the Saint Maxime area, on August 26, 1944. Photographed by Harris. Note small life raft and 20mm gun on the PT.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/SC-212000/SC-212802.html[/url]
Title: Salerno Invasion, September 1943
Caption: USS LST-404 and two PT boats near USS ANCON off Salerno, 12 September 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-87000/80-G-87333.html[/url]
Title: Higgins Type Pt Boats
Caption: On the assembly line at Higgins Industries City Park Plant, New Orleans, La., during World War II. The boats completion state advanced from the rear of the photo toward the front.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44482.html[/url]
Title: Mios Woendi Island PT Boat Base
Caption: Near Biak, New Guinea. Handling Mk. 13 torpedos at the base torpedo dump circa summer 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44301.html[/url]
Title: PT Advance Base, Brunei Bay, Borneo
Caption: Tent quarters on dock, where most of the base complement lived, circa summer 1945. The low and swampy terrain there necessitated these living arrangements.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 436
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44319.html[/url]
Title: Depth Charge
Caption: Explodes in the wake of a pt boat, during pt training exercises in the gulf of Panama, 1942 -45
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44486.html[/url]
Title: PT Crewmen Come Young
Caption: Sc Forrest Hall, USNR, 17 years old, helps Gunner's Mate 2nd class Charles Ferguson, right, and Chief Machinist Mate Carl Ochsner bring .50 cal. machine gun ammunition aboard his PT boat, at Dreger harbor, New Guinea circa 1943-44.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 214
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44300.html[/url]
Title: Admiralties Operations, March-April 1944. PT boats bombarding Pityilu Island, Seeadler Harbor, prior to landings there by the Army's First Cavalry Division
Caption: Admiralties Operations, March-April 1944. PT boats bombarding Pityilu Island, Seeadler Harbor, prior to landings there by the Army's First Cavalry Division, 30 March 1944. Note 37mm & 20mm guns on these boats.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/SC-189000/SC-189625.html[/url]
Title: Australian Coast Watchers on Bougainville, November 29, 1943
Caption: Australian Coast Watchers on Bougainville, November 29, 1943, after they had been picked up from Ireland by PT boats. Several New Ireland native assistants are with them. The men carry British SMLE rifles and U.S. M-1 carbines. Photographed by Sarno. Note sign at top: This Beach is reserved for PT Base Boats .
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/USMC-69000/USMC-69275.html[/url]
Title: New Guinea Landings
Caption: PT boats transport troops and cover their landing on a beach in Nassau Bay, New Guinea. Troops boarding landing barge.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-52000/80-G-52526.html[/url]
Title: Solomons Operations, 1943-44
Caption: PT boats in floating drydocks at the Rendova Motor torpedo boat (MTB) Base, Central Solomons, January 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-58000/80-G-58526.html[/url]
Title: Calvertville
Caption: The Tulagi Pt Boat Base, named for CDR. Allen P. Calvert, com MTB fiot one, circa 1943
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44492.html[/url]
Title: Motor torpedo boat base, Bougainville
Caption: PT boat captains, crowded into the small operations tent, listen to a pre-mission briefing by base Commanding Officer, Commander Thomas G. Warfield, just before leaving for a night patrol, 10 March 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-59000/80-G-59366.html[/url]
Title: Motor torpedo boat (MTB) Base, Bougainville
Caption: PT boat captains, crowded into the small operations tent, listen attentively to Commander Thomas G. Warfield, Commanding Officer of MTB Base, Bougainville, as he briefs them just before the boats leave for night patrol.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-59000/80-G-59347.html[/url]
Title: .50 cal machine guns
Caption: In action on board a U.S. Navy pt boat, during World War II training exercises
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-14000/80-G-K-14517.html[/url]
Title: Lieutenant Commander Robert B. Kelly, Commanding Officer of MTB Squadron Nine
Caption: In the cockpit of one of the Squadron's PT boats, during its shakedown period, March 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-01000/80-G-K-1280.html[/url]
Title: Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, U.S. Army, beachhead near Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944.
Caption: Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, U.S. Army, Commanding General of Fifth Army, looks toward the shoreline from the PT boat carrying him to the beachhead near Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/SC-185000/SC-185793.html[/url]
Title: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 13
Caption: Unloading one of the squadron's PT boats from a merchant ship, at Seattle circa early 1943. The boats were shipped from the east coast to Seattle, and ran from there to the Aleutians on their own bottoms.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 266
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44302.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 2:12pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff;
Nice!!! I especially like the PT 111 and PT 112 onboard USS Tallulah(AO 50) photos, I always thought this was a series, but the experimental camo test is awesome.
I don't know if it is part of your list Also photo NH 100912 is a close up of PTC stern(if this is the same photo set I remember, it is PTC 12).
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 3:20pm
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Great stuff, J.D. THANKS!
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 4:47pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Glad you enjoyed them Ted! I liked the 111-112 shots too. And the color "A well - Tatooed Pt Boat Crewman", I have a small version of it but this one is glorious! I should probably change my 1:1 tracer / AP ratio on my .50 render... bleh.
The 109 stern shot was most welcome too!
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 4:49pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Your welcome Will, glad you appreciate them too! [:-cheers-:]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 5:04pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Wow Ted that IS a very cool pic:
Title: Motor Boat Submarine Chaser (PTC) circa early 1941
Caption: Motor Boat Submarine Chaser (PTC) Photographed in a US East Coast Port, circa early 1941. Note depth charge racks, transfer racks, Y-Guns and arbors.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-100000/NH-100912.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 5:09pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
And a few more of the 791-796 series:
Title: PT 791-796
Caption: Type photograph, by Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans. Dated 19 September 1945. The same view, with negative no. 19-N-89088, was used as type photograph for PT 625-660, dated 20 July 1945. This particular boat is PT-791.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-89000/19-N-89051.html[/url]
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-89000/19-N-89049.html[/url]
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/19-N-89000/19-N-89052.html[/url]
I forgot to search for mtb:
Title: Lieutenant Commander Robert B. Kelly, Commanding Officer of MTB Squadron Nine
Caption: In the cockpit of one of the Squadron's boats, during its shakedown period, March 1943.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-01000/80-G-K-1279.html[/url]
And some insignia, hi-res but sadly B&W:
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Four (MTB RON 4)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76273-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Fourteen (MTB RON 14)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946. Insignia by Walt Disney.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76274-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Fifteen (MTB RON 15)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946. Design features a dragon on a torpedo.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76275-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Nineteen (MTB RON 19)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76276-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 24 (MTB RON 24)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946. Design features a bald eagle on a torpedo.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76277-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 25 (MTB RON 25)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76278-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 27 (MTB RON 27)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76279-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 28 (MTB RON 28)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946. Design features a bat.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76280-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 32 (MTB RON 32)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76281-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 33 (MTB RON 33)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76282-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 38 (MTB RON 38)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76283-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 40 (MTB RON 40)
Caption: Plaque received in 1946.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-76000/NH-76284-KN.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 26, 2016 - 6:30pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
The Ron 14 logo by Disney is fantastic! Thanks for posting!
Posted By: Andy Small | Posted on: Apr 27, 2016 - 10:20am
Total Posts: 262 | Joined: Nov 20, 2013 - 9:04pm
You're welcome Andy! I like that one too, Disney artists made some cool insignias.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 27, 2016 - 12:26pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Way cool, J.D.
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Apr 27, 2016 - 1:48pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
I think the "Torpedoes Away" shot is the 731 boat just before the Russians tool possession of her.
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Apr 27, 2016 - 1:56pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Jeff;
Here is another one;
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/80-G-K-13829.jpeg[/image]
PT sailors hitting on a Panamanian lady on Toboga Beach. The lady is sitting on a concrete ramp used by the local fisherman to haul their Cayuca's out of the water at the end of the day. The dock in the background shows the 18 foot tidal range that is on the Pacific side, it has a floating section that is tethered to the pilings as this rises and falls with the tide. The 80' ELCO in the background has tubes and a 20mm on the stern so this is 1942-1943.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Apr 27, 2016 - 6:20pm
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Looks like fishing was a very competitive sport there Ted! Or is it that fishing is really good? [:-veryhappy-:]
You and Will sure know your PT history. [:-cheers-:]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 28, 2016 - 4:50am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff;
Fishing is fantastic there!
So is REAL fishing:0) There are about 1600 living on the island and while they have goats and chickens seafood is of course the main staple food. Here are recent photos.
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/Toboga%20El_morro.jpg[/image]
These are views of the current pier area. basically the same location, rebuilt, with same principles..
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/Toboga%20up%20near%20radio%20antenna%20looking%20down%20on%20El%20Morro.jpg[/image]
Up towards the top of the hill looking down on pier and El Morro Island, where the original PT Boat floating pier was for RON 2 and RON 3(2), in 1942, before main pier was built by Seabees in 1943.
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/Taboga_Insel.jpg[/image]
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/Isla%20Morada%20Al%20Capone%20rum%20runner.jpg[/image]
Al Capone's Rum Runner Isla Morada, built in 1912 in Massachusetts for J.P. Morgan. Al used this boat to run whiskey and rum from Cuba and the Dominican Republic to Key West
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/Al%20Capones%20rum%20runner.jpg[/image]
This is the oldest ship(104yrs and counting) to pass through the canal and since it gives weekly tours, it also holds the record for most times through the Canal. She also goes to Toboga, but not as often anymore. I have gotten underway on her 5 times since 1996. Twice to Toboga.
If you guys ever want to go down there and take a tour:http://www.biography.com/news/al-capone-yacht-isla-morada
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Apr 28, 2016 - 10:00am
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Great stuff, Ted. Thanks for posting!
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Apr 28, 2016 - 10:16am
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Thanks Ted, it looks beautiful there.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 28, 2016 - 10:57am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
A few more I missed, and some color insignia
Title: Twin .50 -caliber machine guns
Caption: Are sighted in on a target, during training maneuvers by a motor torpedo boat, off Melville, Rhode Island, during World War II.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-13000/80-G-K-13627.html[/url]
Title: Higgins-Type Motor Torpedo Boats (PTs)
Caption: Nested together at Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutians, circa 1943-44. Note conference in session on the forecastle of one boat and a motor launch passing by in the distance.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-16000/80-G-K-16165.html[/url]
Title: 70-FT. Higgins Motor Torpedo boat
Caption: Aerial view of a 70-FT. Higgins Motor Torpedo boat leading a group of 36-FT Higgins "EUREKA" landing craft , near New Orleans about May 1941. This torpedo boat had been built for the British. The landing boats were later developed into the World War II LCPL landing craft.
Description: Photograph sent to ADM Stark by A.J. Higgins, 26, May 1941.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73809.html[/url]
Title: Motor Torpedo Boat Tender (AGP) of the LST Type
Caption: Lifts a Pt boat with its "A- Frame" crane, for repairs, circa 1943-45.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44489.html[/url]
Title: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 13
Caption: Cruising northward through the inland passage from Seattle to Alaska, spring 1943.
Description: Published in At Close Quarters, page 267
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-44000/NH-44303.html[/url]
Title: Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides
Caption: Motor Torpedo Boat Base Number 2 at mouth of Sarakata River, with 80 foot ELCO PTs from Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 37, summer 1945.
Description: Courtesy of Leo Brown
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-93000/NH-93191.html[/url]
Title: Melville, Rhode Island
Caption: Interior view of Quonset hut used as barracks at U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Base and Training Center, summer 1942.
Description: Courtesy of Leo Brown
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-93000/NH-93194.html[/url]
Title: Melville, Rhode Island
Caption: U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Base and Training Center, summer 1942.
Description: Courtesy of Leo Brown
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-93000/NH-93192.html[/url]
Title: Melville, Rhode Island
Caption: Quonset huts at U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Base and Training Center, summer 1942.
Description: Courtesy of Leo Brown
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-93000/NH-93193.html[/url]
Color Insignia
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boats (PTs)
Caption: Shoulder patch (2 3/4" diameter) of World War II vintage.
Description: Courtesy of the Fort Sam Houston Military Museum, 1980
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-91000/NH-91448-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Mobile Field Unit.
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73314-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Repair Training Unit, Melville, Rhode Island
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73313-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirteen
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73306-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Sixteen
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73304-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Seventeen
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73305-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Eighteen
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73301-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Twenty
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73308-KN.html[/url]
21? Possible typo
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-Two
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73300-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Twenty-Two
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73309-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Twenty-Three
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73310-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73298-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-One
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73302-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-Four
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73294-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-Five
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73295-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-Six
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73296-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-Seven
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73303-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-Nine
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73297-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Forty-One
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73307-KN.html[/url]
Per Ted, should be 42
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Thirty-One
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73299-KN.html[/url]
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 43
Caption: World War II emblem.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-84000/NH-84304-KN.html[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Apr 30, 2016 - 10:30am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
good stuff...
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Apr 30, 2016 - 10:20pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Jeff;
They mislabeled NH 73299-KN.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: May 1, 2016 - 5:41am
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Thanks Ted, I caught the 21 but missed that one. Fixed it.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: May 1, 2016 - 7:32am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff,
Thanks for posting those.
The 80' Elco twin-.50 starboard turret color shot (80-G-K-1300/80-G-K-13627) is of the 107.
Makes me wonder if all the other series of shots of the 107 I've seen (posted in black & white), taken at the same time, were in color, too. The twin-.50 turret shot you posted is the only one I've seen in the series in both color and b&w.
Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: May 2, 2016 - 7:34am
Total Posts: 1306 | Joined: Oct 19, 2006 - 10:44am
You're welcome Drew, I thought I'd save others time in sorting through many pages of search results. Hopefully I found most PT images...
Nice catch on the 107! I recognize those faces, I've stared at the other 107 images on Gene's site long enough. Usually the G-K series are color but I don't know if that's a rule. The G-K shot of Kelly I posted earlier is B&W... [url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-01000/80-G-K-1279.html[/url].
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: May 2, 2016 - 8:33am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Yep...I've seen the two shots of Kelly in the 156's cockpit posted in color, also.
Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: May 2, 2016 - 1:05pm
Total Posts: 1306 | Joined: Oct 19, 2006 - 10:44am
Not many since last update but they're interesting. Can anyone positively ID the boats on the USS Atascosa?:
PT 132
Title: UA 486.13 David A. Dhonau Collection (PT-132)
Caption: Collection Photo # UA 486.13.01 Crew of MTB 132 Finschhafen, New Guinea, Sept - Oct 1943
Description: Crew of MTB 132 Finschhafen, New Guinea, Sept - Oct 1943: (Left to Right) Albert La Bore, Tower City, Pennsylvania - gunner; F. Thomason, Los Angeles, California - quartermaster; C.D. Cripps, Cedar City, Utah - radioman; Harvey H. Dhonau, Cincinnati, Ohio - quartermaster; John Fry, New York City, New York - machinist; H.P. Hurlock, Houston, Texas - machinist; O.D. Starkey, Houston, Texas - cook; R.L. Manning, Arkansas - torpedo man; Lt. Francis H. McAdoo, 333 E. 57th St, New York City - skipper; Wilbur Smith, Rudolph, Ohio - machinist
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/alphabetical---donations0/d/ua-486-13-david-a--dhonau-collection.html[/url]
Title: USS Atascosa (AO-66)
Description: Starboard quarter view of USS Atascosa (AO-66) underway in light load condition with camouflaged PT boats as deck cargo fore and aft off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA, on 14 March 1943. She was the former S.S. Esso Columbia.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/19-n/19-N-40000/19-n-43373.html[/url]
Title: USS Atascosa (AO-66)
Description: Starboard bow view of USS Atascosa (AO-66) underway in light load condition with camouflaged PT boats as deck cargo fore and aft off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA, on 14 March 1943. She was the former S.S. Esso Columbia. Note the lines at her bow. She seems to be streaming paravanes.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/19-n/19-N-40000/19-n-43374.html[/url]
I sorted out the previous posts and made a page with the boats in numerical order: [url]http://www.pt103.com/PT_Boat_Photos.html[/url]. If anyone can ID boats not in the numerical list I'd appreciate it if you let me know.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 8, 2017 - 1:47pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Hi Jeff,
The photo 80-G-53793 of the boat under a camo net if you enlarge it and look to the right through the foliage, (between the tree trunks) you can clearly discern the block numbers "3" and "2" painted on the side of the bulwark next to the bridge. I suspect this is PT132.
Just an educated guess.
Jerry
Jerry Gilmartin
PT658 Crewman
Portland OR
Posted By: Jerry Gilmartin | Posted on: Mar 8, 2017 - 2:48pm
Total Posts: 1472 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 11:16pm
Jeff;
Nice photos! I blew up the USS Atascosa photos, in the starboard quarter view the boat closest to the camera is PT 174 on charthouse, with no 40mm forward, but it looks like 164 on cockpit shielding(PT 164 was a SCR-517 boat so we know this is 174). The boat inboard is PT 168 . In the other photo, the boat forward starboard side boat is PT 171 and the boat with beehive radar (SCR 517) on portside forward is PT 167.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Mar 8, 2017 - 3:35pm
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Good eye Jerry, thank you! Looks like it to me too, and the horn on the chart house roof makes it a 138 or earlier:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_132_Maybe.jpg[/image]
This Morobe one is supposed to be the 132 also, with the 68 and an Elco 80 on the far side of the river. Taken in early 1943:
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-53000/80-G-53846.html[/url]
Most excellent, thank you Ted! I changed the page to reflect you two's IDs.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 8, 2017 - 6:03pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
I like the striped canvas gun covers!
Posted By: Andy Small | Posted on: Mar 8, 2017 - 6:06pm
Total Posts: 262 | Joined: Nov 20, 2013 - 9:04pm
Such a nightmare to discern details in photos of boats with that camo Andy! Even with larger images... I also notice they labeled the stern shot as being from the forward quarter.
Ted caught a few more errors:
The photo of PT 62 is actually not, the 20mm magazine is just from PT 62. The boat they are on is a 80' ELCO.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-K-13000/80-G-K-13626.html[/url]
Based on the hardware I'd put it between PT 160 and 186.
Another:
80-G-453471 PT-601, July 1945. is not PT 601, it's some other earlier boat off New Guinea of P.I. PT 601 was in RON 41, they never left the states.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-453000/80-G-453471.html[/url]
And finally:
That is not PT 65 its really PT 59 and that is Jack Searles on the bow(blond guy in Khakis). He was the one who sunk this sub on 9 December 1942, while on patrol with Frank Freeland in PT 44. I enlarged the photo and I don't know if its the lighting, crappy paint, grease or what on the 59 because it sort of does look like 65, but 65 was in RON 5 and came out to Tulagi later in the spring of 1943. PT 65 was in Panama when this photo was taken.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/SC-243000/SC-243966.html[/url]
Once again thank you Ted!
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 9, 2017 - 8:05am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff,
Thanks again for posting these recent photos. I particularly like the one of the 111 and the 112 on board the Tallulah.
Finally, a photo of John Claggett's doomed 111...
Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Mar 9, 2017 - 2:04pm
Total Posts: 1306 | Joined: Oct 19, 2006 - 10:44am
Me too Drew. I just noticed a detail on the 111 that has been eluding me for a long time, the pre-radar mast rest:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_111_PT_112_Mast_Rest_19_N_35467.jpg[/image]
There are some fittings on the side of the windscreen and hatchway hatch that I can only guess at.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 11, 2017 - 3:57am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
A cropping from a PT 141 photo showing those buttons being used for a canvas extension of some sort. It looks like it is not attached to the hatch but a guess would be it normally would. Another guess is either a windscreen or to funnel air into the engine compartment:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_141_MTBSTC_Aft_Windshield_Canvas.jpg[/image]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 12, 2017 - 7:08pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Nice find Jeff . . . .
Posted By: Dick | Posted on: Mar 13, 2017 - 10:29am
Total Posts: 1417 | Joined: Aug 27, 2006 - 6:36pm
Thank you Dick! Could this qualify as a possible "booby hatch" like the ones in the Higgins drawings you showed me?
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 13, 2017 - 10:52am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
I'm not sure, this "Booby Hatch" treatment looks a little disheveled compared to neat tidy package on the Higgins. But what the heck it evidently worked or did it. The booby hatches as I understand were deployed while in port not at full speed like show in your posted photo - the action in the pooh looks like a wide "E" ticket ride.
Dick . . .
Posted By: Dick | Posted on: Mar 13, 2017 - 1:53pm
Total Posts: 1417 | Joined: Aug 27, 2006 - 6:36pm
I tried to find a view from forward but no luck. I did find another aft view of them in the image of PTs 151 through 156 loaded aboard the SS White Plains so the canvas wasn't unique to the 141. This is PT 153, 155 has it also:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_151_152_153_154_155_156_On_SS_White_Plains_PT_153.jpg[/image]
The original image:
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-184000/80-G-184393.html[/url]
While on the subject of unusual canvas, PT 143 with canvas on the forward turret:
[url]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_143_02.jpg[/url]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 14, 2017 - 8:39am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Great shot of the 143 and the beehive radar. ( Wonder how Higher-Higher liked the nude on the cockpit.)
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Mar 14, 2017 - 10:52am
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Or IPMS judges at model contests...
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 14, 2017 - 2:39pm
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff;
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/morobe14-2.jpg[/image]
The same canvass spray sheild on Morobe based boat.
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/PT142%20RON%208.jpg[/image]
and again, on PT 142 RON 8.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Mar 14, 2017 - 7:47pm
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Nice images Ted, thank you. Looks like it was just on the forward part of the railing.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 15, 2017 - 5:51am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Stu Hurley's eagle eye spotted the canvas structure fully erected on PT 108 aboard the SS Joseph Stanton, thank you Stu!:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_108_Stbd_On_SS_Joseph_Stanton_Cropped.jpg[/image]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 16, 2017 - 4:18am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
Jeff,
At least there doesn't appear to be one on the 109[:-cheers-:] Can't tell for sure if the buttons are there.
Maybe no need for re-work.
Best Regards,
Stu.
Posted By: Stuart Hurley | Posted on: Mar 16, 2017 - 4:42am
Total Posts: 255 | Joined: Mar 19, 2013 - 3:32am
Stu and Jeff;
If you can see the little extension piece coming off the port .50 depression rail, then the snaps are there. I will look at Stanton photos again, but since 108 has it, it is a good bet that 109 had them too, probably the whole first series, 103-138(there is a gap in completion dates between 138 and 139, 138 was completed on 9/29/42 and 139 was completed on 10.13/42, 16 days, this might mean nothing, but there are slight changes notated on Jeff's site for 139 on.
Just a thought.
Take care,
TED
P.S. this does appear as if it is a canvas forced air set up, but if so, why is it on the boat set up while on the Stanton? Maybe, the photos were taken close to loading time? Might this be found in the ELCO parts catalog?
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Mar 16, 2017 - 10:03am
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Ted. Jeff,
If visible, the two vertical brackets for the frame on the forward coaming would indicate whether the boat was set up for the canvas extension. They might be easier to spot than the buttons.
Best Regards,
Stu.
Posted By: Stuart Hurley | Posted on: Mar 16, 2017 - 10:15am
Total Posts: 255 | Joined: Mar 19, 2013 - 3:32am
I don't think I see any set-up on the 109-STANTON photos.
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Mar 16, 2017 - 12:54pm
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One more, a starboard side view of PT 109 on the SS Joseph Stanton:
Title: USS PT-109
Description: Stowed on board the Liberty Ship Joseph Stanton for transportation to the Pacific. Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 20 August 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
[url]http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/19-n/19-N-30000/19-N-33165.html[/url]
It's possible the 109 was outfitted with the canvas structure also, there seem to be 7 blurry dots in the same locations as the 111s buttons. It's too blurry to tell but there's also something above the windshield that looks similar to the structures frame:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_109_Stbd_On_SS_Joseph_Stanton_Cropped.jpg[/image]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 16, 2017 - 12:54pm
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I would think those shields were probably put off on the beach, or stowed in the forepeaks of the boats in the forward areas.
Still wondering if that heating unit (or was it an inflatable life raft stowage box?) was removed from the 109 "in the area." If it was a heating unit, I'm sure it probably was.
Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Mar 16, 2017 - 1:11pm
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It's strange that that structure does not appear to be visible in the stern three-quarter view photo though.
Maybe they were in the process of fitting it, although the photo dates are the same.
Best Regards,
Stu.
Posted By: Stuart Hurley | Posted on: Mar 17, 2017 - 1:12am
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Yes Drew, that's a stowage locker. I can't remember ever seeing one in the field. I'm hoping that one day memos will surface about the removal of these and the function of the canvas structure.
OK guys I apologize, I had this photo (in the wrong folder doh) of the 109 (right) and 110 (left) I missed that shows the structure on the 109:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_109_110_Sterns_On_SS_Joseph_Stanton_Cropped.jpg[/image]
The full image: [url]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_109_110_Sterns_On_SS_Joseph_Stanton.jpg[/url]
I tend to agree with you Ted about it being an air scoop, a total guess would be that the windshield would block a certain amount of air from the funnels so maybe this was an experiment to get some heat out of the engine room, especially for Pacific bound boats. Cooler air = more performance! And a Motormac that won't pass out from the heat... those guys are one of the unsung heroes in my book.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 17, 2017 - 3:58am
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Jeff,
That's interesting, as in the stern photo of the 109 the structure is not there and the liferaft is visible.
Adds weight to the theory that it was in the process of being fitted prior to shipping.
Best Regards,
Stu.
Posted By: Stuart Hurley | Posted on: Mar 17, 2017 - 5:09am
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Jeff;
Good job, I tried to load this same photo last might on my Photobucket, but for some reason it was freezing at 90%.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Mar 17, 2017 - 5:59pm
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Stu found an image of the 105 refueling showing the front of the structure, it looks closed but may have a big wrinkle on the bottom indicating it was detached from the hatchway and hanging loose:
[url]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_105_RON_5.jpg[/url]
Thank you Stu, you're a fine researcher.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 19, 2017 - 5:19pm
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Thanks,
It was good to go through all the photos again to find a 'new' detail. Amazing what you miss, I had never spotted the hood in that photo. It would be good to get a definitive answer as to the function of it. It does look loose at the front. If it was just an air scoop, I would have thought that the open hatch would be just as effective.
S
Best Regards,
Stu.
Posted By: Stuart Hurley | Posted on: Mar 20, 2017 - 2:23am
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This shot is cut off at the bottom but is an good look at the front:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/Elco_80_Turret_And_Canvas_Structure_Cropped.jpg[/image]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 23, 2017 - 6:05pm
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Jeff,
You are right, it just looks like it is open at the bottom.
Best Regards,
Stu.
Posted By: Stuart Hurley | Posted on: Mar 23, 2017 - 11:25pm
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A total guess would be it is why they went with a much taller hatchway and did away with 2 of the engine hatch funnels starting with PT 187.
Going by the white funnels, this might be PT 140 or 141 at MTBSTC.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 24, 2017 - 3:46am
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This mysterious canvas structure (whatever it is) may explain the unexplainable deflector and opening in the back of the day cabin on the Revell kit.
Dave
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Mar 24, 2017 - 5:37am
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Could it have been that it was supposed to block/prevent shipping water over the dayroom canopy into an open engine room hatch, and/or the 20 mm gun area?
Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Mar 24, 2017 - 10:27am
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Do you have an image of it Dave?
I don't think so Drew it looks open in front. But I've certainly been wrong before! It was on June 23rd 1969. [:-veryhappy-:]
In any case it wasn't used much, I've been checking but so far no photos of it fully erected on a moving boat.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 24, 2017 - 3:47pm
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Actually, the Forum Masthead shot of PT-149 seems to show the device inflated.
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/PT-149%2010%20FEB%201943_1.jpg[/image]
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Mar 24, 2017 - 6:07pm
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[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/PT-149%2010%20FEB%201943_1.jpg[/image]
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Mar 24, 2017 - 6:13pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/PT-149%2001a.jpg[/image]
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Mar 24, 2017 - 6:17pm
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Nice Will, thank you! Do you know where the photos were taken?
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 25, 2017 - 4:50am
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I believe in the Morobe-Nassau Bay area of New Guinea in '43.
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Mar 25, 2017 - 9:55am
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So they were actually used in combat. Very cool, thanks Will.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 25, 2017 - 11:48am
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Okay,
Funny I've been looking at this header photo for how long and haven't noticed this? Anyway, first picture, is this some sort of rectangular frame to assist in directing air into the engine hatch?
And what the heck is this sticking up by the port forward cowl vent? Any thoughts?
By the way, I take back what I suggested about the Revell kit. I'm sure it was a lame attempt on their part to create the deflector and not anything to do with our mystery canvas. :-)
Dave
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Mar 27, 2017 - 7:19pm
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It looks like the hatchway aft hatch open Dave. There appears to be something behind the 20mm portside but I've no clue as to what:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_149_10_Feb_1943_02_Cropped.jpg[/image]
Guessing that the images were taken on the same day, the object(s) could be what is behind the 20mm in the above image:
[image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/PT_149_10_Feb_1943_01_Cropped.jpg[/image]
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 28, 2017 - 5:35am
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Guys,
Don't think the two photos were taken the same day, or may even be of the same boat, as the masthead photo boat has it's A-frame mast up ahead of the SCR-517A, and the other doesn't.
The masthead photo boat has a little added piece on the 20-mm limit rail, "star"-reinforced aft tube doors, and no canvas splash shield on the port aft twin-.50 turret. The other boat in the photo(s) has no added limit piece, a splash shield on the aft turret, and smooth aft tube doors.
As a matter of fact, the masthead photo boat has always been I.D.'d as the 149, but photos of the 149 where positive I.D. is present (boat number seen on the charthouse or starboard twin-.50 turret), there's no A-frame mast up, so..?
Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Mar 28, 2017 - 1:36pm
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Here are two more taken about the same time.The 80' ELCO has the canvass contraption set up. These are from Gene's site.
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/PT%2066%20and%20PT%20149%20Morobe%20%20July%20October%201943.jpg[/image]
PT 66 and PT 142(maybe) Morobe July- October 1943
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Ted%20Walther/PT%2066%20and%20PT%20149%20Morobe%20%20July%20October%201943%202.jpg[/image]
PT 66 and PT 142(maybe) Morobe July- October 1943.
Remember as per Al's research SCR-517 was originally on PT 127, 128, 131, 132, 135, 136, 142, 143, 145, 149, 151, 152,155, 159, 163, 164, 168, 172, 175-178. and my photo of PT 167 with it in Bayonne, NJ.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Mar 28, 2017 - 6:03pm
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Good eye Drew!
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Mar 29, 2017 - 4:33am
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