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Meanings of mosquito boat in English
Catalan
llanxa torpedinera A small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat.
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Examples for "PT boat"
Examples for "PT boat"
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Better still, Jack escorted me on board an actual PT boat.
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MacArthur from the Philippines to Australia in a PT boat and a Flying Fortress View Article
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We stared at the big headlines that confronted us, along with a drawing of a PT boat.
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He was not the commander of a PT boat, he was Staff Sargeant Joseph A. Kilmurry, better know to his friends as "Irish".
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Another craft, designed for scouting operations, may be likened to the mosquito craft of the seas.
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The Morane-Saulnier is the French mosquito craft of the air and like the insect, it is avowedly aggressive.
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It is now getting dark, and the sea is covered with our mosquito craft darting about in all directions.
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With the dusk came the great opportunity of the mosquito craft and both sides made use of it to the full.
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Consequently the pilot of a dirigible realises to the full the imperative urgency of keeping beyond the point-blank fire of aerial mosquito craft.
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He commanded the motor torpedo boat in the flotilla leading the invasion.
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One of them, 97-year-old Whangaparaoa man Neil Harton, commanded a Royal Navy motor torpedo boat during the invasion.
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Photo: RNZ Neil Harton, who is now 102, commanded a motor torpedo boat protecting minesweepers clearing a path for the invasion fleet.
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The boat assigned was a motor torpedo boat and it lay alongside a pier in the afternoon and waited for the commandos to come aboard.
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Also anchored at Portsmouth was Motor Torpedo Boat 102, which Churchill and Eisenhower used to review the fleet assembled for the D-Day invasion.