PT boat

A PT boat was a motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol "PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet".

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The most famous of these torpedo boats, PT-109, commanded by future United States President John F. Kennedy, was a PT-103 class torpedo boat, hundreds of which were built between 1942 and 1945 by Elco Naval Division of Electric Boat Company at Bayonne, New Jersey.

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Torpedo boat: A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to launch torpedoes at larger surface ships. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and heavily armed ship by speed and agility....

Hull classification symbol: The United States Navy uses hull classification symbols (sometimes called hull codes) to identify the types of its ships. See also pennant number, a somewhat analogous system used by the Royal Navy and some European navies....

United States Navy: The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States...

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