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 ...

A group of volunteers hope to restore a World War Two rescue boat that has been partly submerged for "close to 20 years". Whaleback S32s were used by the RAF to rescue thousands of servicemen who ...

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.