Meanings of pt boat in English

Another craft, designed for scouting operations, may be likened to the mosquito craft of the seas.

The Morane-Saulnier is the French mosquito craft of the air and like the insect, it is avowedly aggressive.

It is now getting dark, and the sea is covered with our mosquito craft darting about in all directions.

With the dusk came the great opportunity of the mosquito craft and both sides made use of it to the full.

Consequently the pilot of a dirigible realises to the full the imperative urgency of keeping beyond the point-blank fire of aerial mosquito craft.

He commanded the motor torpedo boat in the flotilla leading the invasion.

One of them, 97-year-old Whangaparaoa man Neil Harton, commanded a Royal Navy motor torpedo boat during the invasion.

Photo: RNZ Neil Harton, who is now 102, commanded a motor torpedo boat protecting minesweepers clearing a path for the invasion fleet.

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.

Also anchored at Portsmouth was Motor Torpedo Boat 102, which Churchill and Eisenhower used to review the fleet assembled for the D-Day invasion.