Fast Torpedo Boat Built to Defend U.S. Coast
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Probably more powerful than similareraft used by foreign navies, the newest type United States torpedo_boat, the PT-6, has a theoretical topspeed rating of sixty miles an hour. In the first tests, which were made before its three 1,250-horsepower motors had been broken in, the off-shore defender thundered over a lake at forty-six miles an hour, with no attempt to reach its limit. Manned by a crew of ten, the eighty-one foot boat has a cruising range of 2,000 miles. It is armed with torpedo tubes, depth charges and machine guns, and a single fighting unit costs. $218,000.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Fast Torpedo Boat Built to Defend U.S. Coast
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Fast Torpedo Boat Built to Defend U.S. Coast
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-07
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 1, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 79
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
