Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since ...

American PT boats in the Pacific were failing against Japanese supply barges during the Guadalcanal campaign. This story follows Lieutenant Robert Lynch, his crew aboard PT-48, and the desperate ...

NORFOLK — Submarines, a rescue and salvage ship, a sloop sailboat from the 1750s, a couple tugboats, a speed boat and an ambitious kayaker — and a replica of John F. Kennedy’s ill-fated PT-boat, the ...

Though it was shot out from under him, John Clagett of Middlebury still has fond memories of the small boat on which he served in World War II. So fond, in fact, that as he looked over a large marble ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...