Watching this footage just on RU-vid even is captivating. These certainly were monster boats with a huge amount of character. It must be the engineers dream to be on board running them close to maximum power. My Dad drove steam engines here in Australia then progressed to big diesel Loco's. I rode on them often with him. To this day I say those steam engines were "alive" with soul like a living breathing powerful monster. Just like these PT boats. Thanks for sharing the video it's great !!
My dad did his service on one of these torpedo boats with the W18 gasoline powered Isotta Fraschini engines, killer boats! They where later rebuilt as patrol boats and housed two large 1500hp turbo diesel engines, I did my service on one of those.
Does it still have the armor plating it originally came with? I know the weapons are demilled so they can't be used again but what about the armor? If it does and it still goes that fast that's amazing.
I was coming out of Cape MayNJ just after lunch one day in my late teens, my brothers and I found ourselves behind an old PT boat idling out of the bay. early lesson don’t pass an idling PT boat your in danger of burying your boats nose in the second wave🤣
What's even better is that they offer several daytrips per year in the Stockholm archipelago to the public. It's fairly expensive (around 1500-2000 SEK per trip), but someone has to pay for all the fuel it guzzles. 😀
I think they are Isotta Fraschini W18 engines at around 1600 hp each, and the boat has three of them. The big one with the missile launchers has three gas turbines (originally Rolls-Royce Proteus) at around 4500 hp each.
But the packards wer petrol and consumed horrendous amounts of gasfor really only averagevreturns i heard maintenance was veryhighplus verynoisy watch Mckales navy lollisten to tinker their pt73 engineer lol...
R142 Ystad, a Norrköping class missile boat. It was originally built as a torpedo boat, but was converted into a missile boat in the '80s. It's powered by three gas turbines at around 4500 hp each. All of these ships are decommissioned from active duty but are maintained in operating condition by a group of enthusiasts. R142 Ystad and its sister ship (sort of) T121 Spica offer multiple daytrips each year to the public. I can fully recommend going on one of those trips, which I've done five times so far. It's fairly expensive, at around 1500-2000 SEK per trip, but it's easily worth it.
It takes real commitment to one’s craft of being technically incompetent to blow your export process hard enough to trick RU-vid. Nice work with this. You could film on a 1998 PalmPilot with dot matrix resolution and RU-vid would be able to correct it for target screen sizes. I don’t even know how this was accomplished. Solid work. I assume this channel is busy editing Steven Spielberg’s next film but if you’re not too busy with that, maybe fix this sometime? The actual content of this video is so cool otherwise and I actually really appreciate that you uploaded no-frills footage and sound of this unique craft. I’m sorry for my mean words.
