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Meanings of PT boat in English

Portuguese
pt boat
Spanish
pt boat
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Type of torpedo-armed fast attack craft.

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llanxa torpedinera

A small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat.

llanxa torpedinera
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Examples for "patrol torpedo boat"
Examples for "patrol torpedo boat"
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Even a disarmed and civilian painted ELCO eighty-one foot patrol torpedo boat is inherently suspicious.
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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It fueled Jack's determination to stay alive as he floated in the Pacific after his patrol torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese.
True compass: a memoir
Usage of PT boat in English
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Better still, Jack escorted me on board an actual PT boat.
True compass: a memoir
2
MacArthur from the Philippines to Australia in a PT boat and a Flying Fortress View Article
The new yorker
3
We stared at the big headlines that confronted us, along with a drawing of a PT boat.
True compass: a memoir
4
He was not the commander of a PT boat, he was Staff Sargeant Joseph A. Kilmurry, better know to his friends as "Irish".
Letters to jackie: condolences from a grieving nation
Translations for PT boat
Portuguese
pt boat