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New type torpedo-boat for Phillippine navy has trials off Southend. The new torpedo-boat at speed during trilas. The torpedo tubes can be seen.

World's fastest motor Torpedo Boats has trials at Portsmouth - 47 knots. Motoer Torpedo Boat 102 at full speed during her trials at Portsmouth.

High-speed motor torpedo-boats leave for Malta. Longest voyage ever attemped. The high-speed motor torpedo-boats passing Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on their way to Malta.

U.S. Patrol-Torpedo boat gunner ready for action. A U.S. Navy gunner sights twin .50-caliber machine guns aboard a PT (patrol-torpedo) boat hunting Japanes shipping in the South Pacific. PT boats are armed with torpedos as the pricipal offensive weapon, but they also carry depth chrages, .50-caliber machine guns, 20 mm. cannon and anti-aircraft guns. The boats attack at speeds in excesss of 60 miles ...

U.S.Navy PT boats in the Pacific. A U.S. Navy torpedo boat is shown on maneuvers in Slomons, where a flotilla of ..... fast, deadly ships is now on patrol. The U.S. Navy credits PT boats with destroying or damaging 250,000 tons of enemy shipping in the first year America was at war.

Neww U.S. PT boat ready for action. Looking fearsome with a snaggle-toothed face painted on the bow, a recently launched U.S. Navy PT (patrol torpedo) boat is ready for action. The new craft, built in a shipyard in the Eastern U.S., is 80 feet long and carries six guns. Recently, two PT boats were credited with shooting down four Japanes bombers while beating off a force of 30 enemy bombers off the ...

U.S. escort carrier task unit wins presidential citation in U-boat war. Crewmen of the conning tower of a German submarine prepare to go over the side without offering resistance after an attack by an Avanger torpedo bomber from the U.S.S. Card, a U.S. Navy escort aircraft carrier whose Task Unit recently won a Presidential Unit Citation. The attack occured during fighting in the North Atlantic in ...

Van de Nederlandse strijdkrachten telde de marine de meeste mensen. In tegenstelling tot de landmacht was de marine er begin mei 1940 in geslaagd een aanzienlijk deel van personeel en materieel uit Nederland te evacueren. Daarnaast bevond zich in de Indische wateren het marinesmaldeel dat belast was met de verdediging van de archipel. Naast het escorteren van konvooien hebben Nederlandse marineschepen ...

The batle of the North Atlantic. Two Britsh Merchant Marine officers, thei bare hands and feet numbed by the icy waters of the North Atlantic, cling to their raft while a British seaman, is helped aboard a U.S. Coast Guard combat cutter. While the cutter was scouring the Atlantic for U-boats, it sighted these survivors of a torpedoing. At the same time, a U-boat was detected in the vicinity and the ...

Britain strengthens Hong Kong defences. One of the latest high-speed British torpedo boats skimming over the waters of Hong Kong harbour. These craft carry torpedos. depth charges and high-angle machine-guns.

The Dutch East Indies are ready. A speedy torpedo boat laying a smoke screen during naval manoeuvres in the Netherlands East Indies. NI 275