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 ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Over the past dozen years, a group of Vancouver enthusiasts had voiced high hopes for motor torpedo boat 659. A glorious restoration. A waterfront display. A captivating lesson for ...

The possibility was considered here today that the North Viet Nam torpedo boats which attacked the American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin were supplied by Egypt. It has been definitely established ...

The destroyer was borne out of a singular need: counter the asymmetrical threat posed to the ships of the line by the motor torpedo and the agile boats craft that launched them. The utility of the ...

In August 1942, during the American island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, 15 motor torpedo boats were sent to intercept a Japanese destroyer convoy generally referred to as the Tokyo Express ...

Years ago, it may not have been unusual to see warships at the mouth of the Tchefuncte River, primarily because Madisonville was the site of shipyards that built and repaired vessels of battle used in ...