PT658 PT Boat Trip to St Helens Part 3 July 13 2012 MVI_1779.MOV 

Willy & Cl. River confluence - great place to have her. So proud of U guys restoring, running & even giving the fellas a ride! Extra thanks for sharin here. Now onto the other vids... - -Chad (nahm era) Amherst MA USA

Before I joined the Navy, back in the early 60s, I was a member of the Sea Scouts, whose retired Lieutenant owned a retired WW2 Pt Boat, and docked it next to the 42nd St boat ramp, on the Columbia River. We took a cruise up the river to Rooster Rock, and stood watch in the engine room, and at the helm. It was stripped of all it’s original armament. In the Navy, I spent 2 years on a big tug in Bremerton,Washington, then, the last 2 years as coxswain of mike 6s and 8s, on Johnston Island, and Bikini Atoll. The big tug would barely do 14 knots at full throttle, with its 20 cylinder, Fairbanks-Morse ,apposing-piston, engine.

WOW! Such a highly detailed boat! Hats off to you all!

A ride on this boat would be, in Navy terms, hot shit. Thanks fellas.

My dad served in the Navy during WW2, He was on a Liberty ship. The USS John C. Breckenridge.

Excellent videography.

"Shift Colors...Boats Underway" should have been announced when the last bow line was cast-off and the flag should have been moved to the fan-tail or stern of the boat.

hey guys, where;s you spirit...How about hittin the throttle on those big V-12's

Wish they would have had those when I was in, I was on a Spruance Destroyer

Awesome

What I want to know is, whatever happened to PT 73?

It would really help the quality of the audio if you put wind protection on the camera mic

Why no topedoe tubes?

What’s the guy doing in the gun turret? Looking for Japanese Zeros? The war ended 74 years ago mate.

thats about as much enthusiasm as a funeral,,??? what gives?

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Cmon! 5 minutes of wide open throttle for the old guys.

That boat's making good way just at high idle on just two Packards.

This thing is bad ass!

"Salvage Chief" is normally based in Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia, and has been important in many recovery efforts of disabled and stranded vessels around the area of the Oregon & Washington coast. (The Pacific Graveyard)

That was just Cool as hell y'all! I could imagine that boat getting ready to make a torpedoe run. Deadly just cruising along. Wow

Make sure to watch Parts 1, 2 and 4 as well. Sorry for the wind noise on camera mic.

this is great to see. I would love this trip

Why do you never make a video of these PT boats running in a open area so that you can run it wide open for a bit. If you put the motor together correctly it can take it. I'm not saying stay on it for 20 minutes, maybe a 3 or 4 minute high speed run. Maybe leave the 90 year old veterans on the dock.

How do you get a ride on this or the one in lake Pontchartrain.

Awesome and incredible boat

people should donate money to keep pt boats restoed for life

The single gun about amidships is I believe a 20mm. I didn't know they had a 40mm on PT's.

Shucks. I was settling in for a two hour trip video. Next best thing to being there. I would have watched it too.

Love the sound of those big ol PACKARD 5M2500's !!! Music...

That boat was built to run. I want to see that thing wide open bow up and out the water

Them big Packards just idling along !!! !

Damn cool thanks

Thank you for very important and rarely information abaut PT 658 boat of U.S. NAVY, during Second Ward in the Pacific Ocean. Sincerelly Edgar H. Ayala.C. Quito- Eciador Sud- América P

Aren’t they cute with their crew vest on? A bunch of old guys enjoying their toys.

The horn signal is 1-6 second blast then three short blasts for astern propulsion.

Did the PT boats have fans in the engine room back in the day

Great, she is a beautiful lady, her engines is fantastic, cant be better.

Anybody here know the story of RON 34's PT 509?

I was Army but there is something about these boats.......

To bad you couldn’t fire those 50’s

On the engine there is two levers are they hooked up the transmission so you can go forward and reverse and what else do they do. Thank You..

The guys doing the surveying and mapping for the USGCS during the later years of the war, were ferried around from one survey location to another on PT boats on the Alaskan coast and the Aleutians. My uncle was one of them. On one landing he was still on his way back to the beach, when he found the landing boat had left without him, no amount of waving shouting signaling raised their attention. Two day walk avoiding bears and crossing rivers back to base.

Doesn't that boat have reverse. If it were me and my volunteers I'd put a transmission in it so it has reverse.

I can only imagine how much it costs to fill the tanks. Where do you get the money for a cruise like this?

Good to see one being taken care of. In the land of anti gov. And pro socialism im glad yall find enough real Americans to complete a project like that.

So they are providing security escort for the Coast Guard. Makes perfect sense.😅🇺🇸👊🦟🤜