What is then boat??

[Jack]

Folks - anyone know what this is?

 

[R Cubed]

Folks - anyone know what this is?

 

 

:idea::idea::idea::idea::idea:

 

Errrrr a crane lifting a boat !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

merry Christmas, stop posting and sort your truck out :cool2:

[Chrisg]

:idea::idea::idea::idea::idea:

 

Errrrr a crane lifting a boat !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

merry Christmas, stop posting and sort your truck out :cool2:

 

as it was to hot in the summer it'll be to cold now

[Bodge Deep]

MTB?

RAF rescue launch?

[abn deuce]

American PT boat I m pretty sure here is the wikipedia link with the story on development and for Catw. the fuel comsumption figures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT_boat

[Jack]

:idea::idea::idea::idea::idea:

 

 

merry Christmas, stop posting and sort your truck out :cool2:

 

Bully & you Chris! :argh:

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

PT 24,Launched on 26/6/41.An Elco boat 77ft.39 built in us and 10 in england.

A few fun facts,400.000 wood screws,rivets and nails were used.20.000 on the deck alone.Out of the 500 odd built ,26 were lost to enemy action.43 due to friendly fire and acidents.Its not recorded as lost so could of been burnt as many were at the end of the war where it lay:cry:

Have you a location for this pic Jack it may of been built in England.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

I know what you mean,i looked for the third engine,there were some specials built,but have little facts.the liferafts look american.the superstructure looks PT or whaleback(british).

[Degsy]

Sorry CW, when I saw your post I deleted mine as I assumed your knowledge was superior, I thought the PT's all had three Packards and the bridge structure didn't look quite right but perhaps some of the early ones were different to the main production run.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

You should of left it mate,you make a valid point,there were four builders,the length varied up to 80 ft,and they did have a variety of topsides.i still would like to know why two engines,will have to find out.

[R Cubed]

as it was to hot in the summer it'll be to cold now

 

 

Also too busy sorting out the forum...... not enough light to do anything,

I know Jack you do want to sort it out....... So get on and do it :cool2:

[R Cubed]

I thought they had 3 engine and were marinised Meteor V12's like out of the tanks.

Had a quick scout around and found it depends on the type of boat.

 

 

• Length: 68 ft (21 m)
  
• Beam: 14 ft 9 in
  
• Draft: 3 ft 9 in
  
• Power plant: 3 Isotta Fraschini 57-litre petrol engines
  
• Power: 3,300 hp.
  
• Speed 48 knots (light), 43 knots (loaded and armed)
  

 

 

 

 

• Length: 73 ft (22 m)
  
• Engine: 3 Packard 12M engines for a total of 4,200 hp
  
• Speed: 40 knots (74 km/h)
  
• Range: 470 nmi (870 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
  
• Displacement: 47 t
  

 

 

 

 

• Displacement: 55 tons
  
• Overall length: 72 ft 6 inches
  
• Breadth: 20 ft 7 inches
  
• Draught: 5 ft 8 inches
  
• Maximum speed: 38 to 41 knots (new)
  
• Armament:
  
  • auto-loading 6 pounder gun (57 mm, 2.24 inch)
  • Two 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes
    
  • .303 or .50 Vickers machine guns
    
  • 20 mm Oerlikon or 40 mm Bofors cannon
    

   

   

  [*]Powerplant - three Rolls-Royce or Packard 14M supercharged V-12 (three shafts)

  [*]Power - 3,750 hp total

  [*]Range - 140 miles (260 km) at 25 knots (46 km/h)

   

 

Edited December 10, 2008 by R Cubed

[Jack]

PT 24,Launched on 26/6/41.An Elco boat 77ft.39 built in us and 10 in england.

A few fun facts,400.000 wood screws,rivets and nails were used.20.000 on the deck alone.Out of the 500 odd built ,26 were lost to enemy action.43 due to friendly fire and acidents.Its not recorded as lost so could of been burnt as many were at the end of the war where it lay:cry:

Have you a location for this pic Jack it may of been built in England.

 

 

Here we CW does this make sense to you?

 

Rare Photo of Bonaventure being off loaded at Poole, Dorset, England.

 

And some further info.......

 

June 5, 1944 Mid to 0900. Moored to dock at Poole Harbor, England. 0800. Morning colors held. 0900 to 1600. Moored to dock at Poole, England. 1300. Held General Quarters & Signal Drills . 1600 to Mid. Moored as before. 1700. Underway at Habor. 1800. Steering 230o P. S. C. to Portland [England] to catch up with Convoy [speed 12 knots]. 2100. following in formation with convoy. 123o P. S. C. running on one motor at 600 R. P. M. [5 knots].

 

June 6, 1944 Mid to 0600. Underway traveling in formation with 5 knot Convoy running on one motor at 600 R. P. M.123o P. S. C 0600 to 1200. As before in Convoy formation running on at 600 R. P. M.123o P. S. C. 1000. C/C [Changed course] 178o P. S. C. 1200 to 1800. As before in Convoy formation running on at 600 R. P. M.178o P. S. C 1800 to Mid. As before in Convoy formation running on at 600 R. P. M. 1900. both motors going at various R. P. M., on Various courses. 2030. picked up survivors form Capsized landing barge. off coast of Northern France. 2100 transferred survivors to Navy L. S. T. 2140 Moored to L. C.I. 2330 General Quarters. Fired on Enemy Planes overhead. 2355 secured firing.

 

June 7, 1944. Mid to 0900. Moored to Navy L. C. I. off Coast of France. In area assigned. 0900 to 1600. Moored as before. 1000 Underway, transferred Commander and Crew from Freigher to Navy L. S. T. 1100 Moored to Navy L. C. I. 1600 to Mid. Moored as before. 1800. Underway. 1830. moored to gasoline tanker received 700 gallons gasoline. 1900 Underway again. (unreadable) Hospital ship being towed by tug. Hospital Ship Knock[ed] out by mines. 2200. Relieved from escort duty. Standing out to take position for Convoy on return trip to Poole. 2300. in Convoy formation heading Northerly, running both motors at 1000. R. P. M [12 - 14 knots]. Note: Entered Poole Harbor at 0630 June 8, 1944.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Think you have the british boats,american PT boats never had Isotta,in fact the british lost more boats due to backfires on isotta than enemy action.PT boats used Packards but not merlin copys.Packard did supply Merlins to the british boats.

Many of the British boats were triple shaft but the centre one was for a small engine

for lurking about waiting for a target.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Why didnt you say,now it makes sense,its one of the US coastguard Flotilla one of 60 sent over for D Day,

bit of a coincidence

Twin Screw Cutter.83 ft,2 x straight 8 petrol engines.

Made by the Sterling Engine Co.8in stroke 9 in bore.:cool2:

3.619 cu in.18 knts 120 galls per hour:-D

They saved 1435 lives over half in the first 36 hours d day landings.

These weigh 6 tons each:-D

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Jack,interested to know why you picked that picture,what else do you know about it.cheers cw.I didnt put you name on it thats how i found it..

[Tony B]

If you fancy trying a replica http://hnsa.org/doc/pt/specs/index.htm

 

The biggest single los of PT boats happned in the channel on the night of 8/9 August 1944, about 6 miles west of Jersey. For such an event tracking down information is proving difficult Though there is a memeorial.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Good link mate cheers ,CW.

[Tony B]

:-DI expect you to be making room in the workshop very soon! :-D

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Its all here have a look.

[Jack]

Cheers CW - that is the same place I found the image at. I was just doing some 'Dorset' research for Armour and Embarkation event as it would be nice to see all of these places. I can across that site and it said on there that this particular boat was rare but I thought 'bet HMVF can bust that'. It is interesting to note that Dorset has it all, sea, land and air. We should look at all of them.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Who would of thought the US Coastguard were involved on D,Day,nice bit of imfo cheers Jack.cw.