Posted on 03/31/2011 9:19:38 AM PDT by EveningStar
The only functional, restored, PT boat left in the world! Operating out of Portland, Oregon.
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Wow. Just, wow. Raw, unadulterated power, and sexy looking to boot. Nice job, thanks for posting it!
Wow! Great looking craft!
What is the long barreled weapon right at the bow(not the 20MM cannon), and the other one near the fantail?
PT 728 - Kingston, NY
Fully Restored WWII PT Boat
Available For Charters - Public Events - Film
http://www.pt728.com/index.html
PT Boat 728
Tours depart daily from the Hilton Docks or from the Schooner Wharf Bar
http://www.clydeskeywest.com/Other-Fun-Sub-01/boat_rides_florida_keys1.htm
Others as well
If I remember correctly, three 1,200 HP Allison V-12’s(same engine as was in the P-40 Warhawk). And each one burned 100+ gallons per hour under high loads. Probably 50 gal/hr each at economy cruise and by the way, that was 130 octane, the good stuff. These guys were the hot rodders of the Navy back then.
Lets go pirate hunting!
I have been to Oshkosh a bunch of times, and NOTHING sounds as cool as those big piston engines...:)
Gettin wood just thinking of it!
Video says 3x1800 hp Packard turbocharged V-12’s.
Video says 3x1800 hp Packard turbocharged V-12’s.
Bofors 40mm cannon and crew of 4
Twin 0.50 caliber Browning Machine Guns
20mm Oerlikon Cannon
37mm M9 Automatic Cannon
I believe that the bow gun is a 37 mm Automatic Gun, M4. Most likely ‘liberated’ from a Army Air Corp from crashed P-39.
3 5M-2500 Packard-Marine V12 Engines.
These engines are 4 stroke, water cooled, 60 degree, V- type with a 6-3/8” bore and 6-1/2” stroke, for a total of 2490 cubic inches of displacement. Each engine has 48 valves, 2 inlet/2 outlet per cylinder. They have a compression ratio of 6.4:1, and are fitted with a gear-driven centrifugal supercharger and intercooler. The engines are installed with a Holley 1685F aircraft-type carburetor, and use aircraft- type dual magneto sparks, with 2 spark plugs per cylinder. The engines develop 1500 Hp at 2500 rpm.Max revolutions is 3000 rpm. Engine weight is 3100 pounds. These engines were designed to burn 100 octane aviation gasoline to achieve nominal power output.
http://www.savetheptboatinc.com/new_page_9.htm
Must be updated. My dad was a PT driver.
If they are Packards they are the Rolls Royce V12 we put in the P-51 Mustang. About 1,700HP for aircraft use I think. British engine licensed to American manufacturer. Originally used on Spitfire.
Used to have all this crap memorized like some baseball freaks but have forgotten alot.
At the end of the war many PT Boats were lashed together, doused with gasoline, and set ablaze. They could not be mothballed because they were made of wood. What a shame.
At the end of the war many PT Boats were lashed together, doused with gasoline, and set ablaze. They could not be mothballed because they were made of wood. What a shame.
US Navy PT’s surviving World War II were auctioned and sold by the Maritime Commission. Unfinished boats were in various states of completion at the end of the war. Some of these were completed even though Navy contracts were canceled; these would not have been finished out as combat-ready boats. Boats in “theater” were disposed of in sales to other countries or destroyed. China is have thought to have gotten some. Some were given to Yugoslavia, Cuba appears to have gotten at least one somehow. Others have turned up in Finland, Great Britain, Argentina, and the Philippines.
Some Lend-Lease boats that went to the USSR were returned in Turkey; but dates and places are unknown. Others stayed in Russia; but because of the Cold War, tracing them was impossible. Four were given to the Republic of Korea. The ROK Navy gave one of those, PT 619, to J.M. Newberry, founder of PT Boats, Inc., in 1969. He arranged for her transport back to the States and brought her to his home in Memphis where the boat was cannibalized and then destroyed in the mid-80’s.
http://www.ptboats.org/20-01-05-ptboat-010.html
According to “At Close Quarters”, 99 were losses of one kind or another, 121 were burned at Samar in the Philippines, after decommissioning of squadrons. Some Lend-Lease boats, which included Vospers as well as Elco and Higgins, were destroyed by Great Britain. (Boats in the US Navy were Higgins, Huckins and Elco.)
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