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.

"Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm s way." When John Paul Jones made that statement, he was only 19 years old and the First Mate of a slave ship in the 1760s. He didn t know that his ...

They were beautiful, fast and glamorous -- a rare opportunity for a young reserve officer like John F. Kennedy to earn a coveted command at sea. But should a PT boat ever be caught with idling engines ...

Read the original article on Coffee or Die Magazine. Follow Coffee or Die on Instagram. During World War II, 26-year-old John F. Kennedy was nearly killed in action when a Japanese destroyer collided ...

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 ...

INWOOD, Manhattan (WABC) -- From the mud and muck of the Harlem River, a piece of American history has been uncovered. The MTA recently discovered the main hatchway from a World War II-era warship ...

SYLVAN BEACH -- PT-728, the World War II era boat headed for Port Clinton, Ohio along the Erie Canal, made it to Oneida Lake Wednesday afternoon. By 12:20 p.m., the craft had traveled through Lock 21 ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...