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Motor Torpedo Boat Photo Archive

PTF-2
ex-PT-811

94' Aluminum Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 17 March 1949 by John Trumpy and Sons, Annapolis, MD
  • Launched 30 November 1950
  • Completed 6 March 1951
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1959
  • Reinstated on the Naval Register and reclassified as a Fast Patrol Craft, PTF-2, 21 December 1962
  • Sunk as a target in August 1965 off the Hawaiian Islands.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 90 t.
  • Length 94'
  • Beam 24' 11"
  • Draft 4' 2"
  • Speed 55 kts. (Under ideal conditions)
  • Armament: Two 40mm mounts, two twin 20mm mount, one 81mm mortar and one smoke generator
  • Propulsion: Four 1,500hp Packard gasoline engines, four shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PT-811
    PT-811 125k Launching at Trumpy and Sons in Annapolis, MD.
    U.S. Naval Institute photo    		 .
    PT-811 156k Starboard shot just as she is coming up on step.
    U.S. Naval Institute photo
    PT-810 & PT-811 70k PT-810 and PT-811 running together in echelon somewhere on the Chesapeake Bay.
    U.S. Naval Institute photo
    PT-811 213k U.S. Navy photo Jerry Gilmartin, MMC(SW), USN, Ret.
    PT-810 241k PT-810, PT-811 and PT-812 in formation
    From the collection of Steven Ribiero and LCDR Robert Beveridge, USN, Ret.
    PT-810 247k PT-810, PT-811 and PT-812
    From the collection of Steven Ribiero and LCDR Robert Beveridge, USN, Ret.
    PT-811 153k 14 April 1952
    New York
    In New York for the fifth PT boat reunion
    From the collection of Steven Ribiero and LCDR Robert Beveridge, USN, Ret.
    PT-811 92k U.S. Navy photo from the 1964/1965 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
    PTF-2
    PT-811 70k PTF-2 at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, VA before deployment to Vietnam. .
    PT-811 274k Little Creek, VA
    From the collection of Steven Ribiero and LCDR Robert Beveridge, USN, Ret.    		 Jerry Gilmartin, MMC)SW), USN, Ret.
    PT-811 261k c. 1963
    Off Norfolk, VA
    PTF-2 and PTF-3
    From the collection of Steven Ribiero and LCDR Robert Beveridge, USN, Ret.
    PT-811 256k c. 1963
    Off Norfolk, VA
    PTF-2, PTF-3 and PTF-4
    From the collection of Steven Ribiero and LCDR Robert Beveridge, USN, Ret.
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-811
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