3/17/2023 0 Comments Pt boat forum mb2 netboardThese boats started out either overall No.5 Navy Grey, or No. I chose to model PT-41 as completed by Elco on July 23, 1941, mostly because this was the only time when the large bow numbers were present. Click on image to see my collection of over 200 WW2 era ads featuring PT boats! (Edit: Sorry, Yahoo closed that site 10/2009) Flames are correctly shown coming out the unmuffled exhaust pipes. The image errs by showing a 70 foot boat. Apparently it didn’t take long to realize that unmuffled aircraft engines didn’t suit stealthy operations, as the mufflers became standard equipment on the 103 class.ġ942 ad from Thompson Products depicts PT-41 attacking a cruiser. But they weren’t on the early 77’s, which had simple straight pipes out the back. Some readers may be looking for the six mufflers fitted on the transom of PT boats-one for each bank of the three Packard V12 aircraft engines. Photos of her sister, PT-32, show that several details, including the Lewis guns and an aerial from the mast forward, were not yet installed at this point in time (Kelvin-White). Thirty caliber Lewis guns were added on stands ahead of the pilot house, but were probably not present on PT-41 during her trials in July or August 1941. Black powder ejection charges in detonation chambers were electrically fired from the cockpit, but in case of misfire, a mallet-blow to a firing pin could also get the job done. The tubes were cranked out several degrees in order to muzzle-load and to launch the torpedoes. The torpedo tubes were heavy steel weldments with a pivot aft and a training mount forward. Some boats substituted up to eight depth charges for the two after tubes (Lambert and Ross, 118), but it appears that all six of Bulkeley’s Squadron 3 boats had a full set of fish, as seen in photos of the boats loaded as deck cargo on a tanker (Polmar and Morison, 21). VIII torpedoes in deck mounted tubes and a pair of twin 50 caliber machine guns in hydraulically powered turrets. The PT-20 class’s armament consisted of four Mk. PT-41 ferried General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines, and was immortalized in the book and movie, “They Were Expendable”.Įxample of the detail available from the microfilmed Elco drawings, which includes wood types. I chose to scratch build a subject less known in shape, but with another famous story- PT-41, the 77 foot Elco skippered by Lt. By far the most popular is the Elco 80 footer of the PT-103 class, so famously associated with Lt. And the scale model builder has the opportunity to create fine detail, made so much easier when creating big models of small subjects.Ī number of plans, kits, and fittings are available for various classes of torpedo boats. The R/C enthusiast can delight in the speed and handling, a far cry from a plodding tugboat. For the romantic, there’s the swift boat and small crew taking on battles with lopsided odds. PT boats have more than one good reason for their popularity with modelers. One of the “Expendables”, R/C in 1:20 Scale The reverse shear is an attractive feature of the class. PT-41 is a 77 foot PT-20 class Elco, shown here on the Elco transport cradle.
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