The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura ...

Peter Bickmore was aboard the Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boat 243 when a devastating air ... Peter received the British Empire Medal (BEM) "for outstanding gallantry shown in the rescue work ...

He was 99. Chandler, who served aboard a British motor torpedo boat during the invasion of Normandy that began June 6, 1944, was one of the dwindling cohort of D-Day survivors who gathered last ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes ...

(Navy History and Heritage Command/National Archives) The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American ...