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Meanings of motor torpedo boat in English

Russian
моторный торпедный катер
Spanish
motor torpedo boat
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Type of fast torpedo boat.

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моторный торпедный катер
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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 "PT boat"
Examples for "PT boat"
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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
1
Another craft, designed for scouting operations, may be likened to the mosquito craft of the seas.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
2
The Morane-Saulnier is the French mosquito craft of the air and like the insect, it is avowedly aggressive.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
3
It is now getting dark, and the sea is covered with our mosquito craft darting about in all directions.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
4
With the dusk came the great opportunity of the mosquito craft and both sides made use of it to the full.
America's War for Humanity
5
Consequently the pilot of a dirigible realises to the full the imperative urgency of keeping beyond the point-blank fire of aerial mosquito craft.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
Usage of motor torpedo boat in English
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He commanded the motor torpedo boat in the flotilla leading the invasion.
Radio NZ
2
One of them, 97-year-old Whangaparaoa man Neil Harton, commanded a Royal Navy motor torpedo boat during the invasion.
Radio NZ
3
Photo: RNZ Neil Harton, who is now 102, commanded a motor torpedo boat protecting minesweepers clearing a path for the invasion fleet.
Radio NZ
4
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.
Once there was a war
5
Also anchored at Portsmouth was Motor Torpedo Boat 102, which Churchill and Eisenhower used to review the fleet assembled for the D-Day invasion.
The Guardian
Translations for motor torpedo boat