Pt Boats

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1. Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...31 Aug 2025
   27:17Equipping coastal boats for wartime supply workQ&A
2. Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...31 Aug 2025
   2:48:28Science-fiction equivalents of Flower corvettes and PT craftQ&A
3. Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3 Aug 2025
   1:42:35Where torpedo boats stop being small craftQ&A
4. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...13 Jul 2025
   5:39:04Designing a modern uncrewed PT boatQ&A
5. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20 Apr 2025
   3:19:17What happened to Packard engines from Pacific PT boatsQ&A
6. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3 Nov 2024
   2:13:51A PT boat at Trafalgar faces thick oak after its torpedoes run outQ&A
7. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!29 Sept 2024
   49:20PT-boat transports and escorts for landing craftQ&A
8. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered21 Jan 2024
   2:48:46Uncrewed boats as modern PT craftQ&A
9. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
   20:44The US Navy excluded a ready sea-sled starting pointNotable Point
10. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    29:03US PT trials chose several usable designsNotable Point
11. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    37:24Elco PT boats carried field-modified firepowerChapter
12. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    39:18Torpedo scarcity made gun armament essentialNotable Point
13. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    40:36PT boats supported the Pacific island advanceChapter
14. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    43:02PT-658 left the factory as a heavily armed gunboatNotable Point
15. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    46:10Institutional resistance narrowed the PT programmeNotable Point
16. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    49:46The Huckins PT boat prioritized strength and crew enduranceNotable Point
17. Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7 Oct 2023
    1:56:09Small-boat doctrine had to be learned in warChapter
18. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    20:42The 1938 US Navy PT-boat competitionChapter
19. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    28:49The 1938 US requirement already included a gunboat optionNotable Point
20. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    31:38Why a PT-boat competition winner preferred the excluded sea sledNotable Point
21. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    34:14How Higgins, Elco, and Huckins entered the PT-boat raceNotable Point
22. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    41:39The open-ocean trials that tested PT boatsChapter
23. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    53:02Why the Elco PT boat dominated productionNotable Point
24. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    58:17Where Higgins and Huckins PT boats servedNotable Point
25. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    1:04:33Okinawa revealed the need for small-craft gunboatsChapter
26. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre5 Oct 2023
    3:03:27Crew additions and the British response with purpose-built gunboatsNotable Point
27. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1 Oct 2023
    24:22Heavily armed small combatants in World War IIQ&A
28. Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class4 Feb 2023
    1:47:04American PGM gunboats and the PT-boat speed mismatchNotable Point
29. Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2 Feb 2023
    2:26:09PGM-1 subchaser conversion mismatchChapter
30. Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2 Feb 2023
    2:49:11Were PGMs only meant to escort PT boats near the attack area?Q&A
31. USS Wichita: Comment Response1 Feb 2023
    51:15PT-109's improvised 37 mm gunNotable Point
32. Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat18 Dec 2022
    47:30Why massed PT boats could overwhelm an IowaQ&A
33. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 219 Jan 2021
    10:40Hubert Scott-Paine assembled Supermarine's early talentChapter
34. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul21 Sept 2020
    48:52Why British MTBs and American PT boats differedQ&A
35. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 24 Jun 2020
    23:14Elco 80-foot PT boats worked best as ambush predatorsNotable Point
36. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 24 Jun 2020
    32:51Elco S-class gunboats traded torpedoes for concentrated automatic fireNotable Point
37. Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A10 May 2020
    1:47:34PT-boat weapons followed the targets actually encounteredQ&A