patrol torpedo boat

noun

1. PT boat.

Example Sentences

In April 1943, he took command of a patrol torpedo boat, the PT-109, which was “grimy and battle-scarred,” according to Fredrik Logevall’s biography, “JFK.”

From New York Times

When an oblong piece was lifted out, one of the onlookers remarked that it might have been part of the PT — patrol torpedo — boat’s engine.

From New York Times

Like his older brother, Mr. Kennedy joined the Navy and was a lieutenant assigned to the South Pacific as commander of a patrol torpedo boat, the PT-109.

From New York Times

A patrol- torpedo boat was moored alongside Corregidor’s north dock barely a half mile away, ready come nightfall to take the general, his family, and a few senior staffers on a high- speed run south to break the Japanese blockade of the island.

From Salon

It came as that restored World War II patrol torpedo boat dangled over the edge of the Mississippi River from the arm of a huge floating crane.

From New York Times