In 1942, federal workers expanded a natural waterway into a series of dams, holding ponds, a spillway and a concrete-lined channel to supply water to a PT base where a young John F. Kennedy trained.

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The last PT boat -- PTF-26 -- arrived Monday at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel is a U.S. Navy gunboat and training vessel. It played a crucial ...

COLUMBUS -- As they have done for more than 20 years, World War II PT boat veterans gathered for a reunion on the first weekend after Easter. This year Ray and Betty Vrbka of Shelby coordinated the ...

PT-305 recently added another and perhaps final leg to its remarkable journey. The patrol torpedo boat was built in New Orleans in 1943 at the Higgins Industries City Park plant. Tested on Lake ...

Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific. (U.S. Naval Reserve) On Sept. 15, 1944, the 31st U.S. Infantry Division landed on the ...

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 ...