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[Wurger]

Not sure but enlarged images of it may suggest the red digits with white outline.

 

[Lucky13]

Much obliged my friend!

 

[Lucky13]

Just clocked it, I don't know how many times I've heard about it, never really read about it, but....

The Amityville murders, 13th of November, 1974!

 

[Robert Porter]

This shot is from the film Island Target posted here this morning.

 

[Lucky13]

Nice one!

 

[Robert Porter]

 

[Wayne Little]

Good one..!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

And with Jan beneath the nose .... Karl on his left, me on his right, and all very wet, as it was pi ... er, persisting down that day !!

 

[Lucky13]

One of them there days, where we were F....fairly damp, inside and outside!
Loved the Halifax, the Lighting, Buccaneer and the Canberra before that visit, even more so after....really enjoyed the visit, old chap!
Need to find my way down again at some point, even if just for a day or two!

Definitely worth five

 

[Airframes]

Yep, you'll have to get down here again, on a Hippocroccfrog-free day of course, or meet up at an airshow.
Because we're ......

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Lucky13]

PT-513....

80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

• Laid down 21 October 1943 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ

• Launched 12 January 1944

• Completed 12 February 1944

• Placed in service 15 February 1944 and assigned to Motor Torpedo Squadron THIRTY FIVE (PTRon 35) under the command of LTJG Robert S. McCormick, USN

• PTRon 35 served in the English Channel during the summer of 1944 as part of Operation Neptune which was the Allied Naval part of Operation Overlord known to all as "D-Day" or the Normandy Invasion

• The "Umbriago" was transferred to the Soviet Union 30 December 1944 and named TK-425

• Fate unknown.

 

[Lucky13]

PT-113....

80' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

• Laid down 25 March 1942 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ

• Launched 3 July 1942

• Completed 23 July 1942, placed in service and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FIVE (PTRon 5) under the command of Comdr. Henry Farrow, USN

• PTRon 5 was assigned to Panama Sea Frontier from September 1942 until the spring of 1943, when it was shipped to the Solomons. There its boats were in action at Rendova, Vella Lavella, Treasury, Bougainville, Green, and
  Emirau. After assignment to the Southwest Pacific area at the end of 1944, the squadron was decommissioned and its boats were distributed to replenish other squadrons which had suffered operational losses
  • Transferred 22 September 1942 to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWO (PTRon 2) under the command of Lt. George A. Brackett, USNR
  • In late 1942, with six 77' Elco boats and six 80' Elco boats, PTRon 2 was shipped to the South Pacific, where it was active in the Solomons campaign, engaging in many strenuous night actions with the Tokyo Express in the defense
    of Guadalcanal. PT's 113 and 114 operated from December 1942 to April 1943 as part of Motor Torpedo Boat Division 17, in turn part of PTRon 6, on detached duty in New Guinea waters. Lt. Earl S. Caldwell, USN, was
    for a time commander of both PTRon 1 and 2
    • Transferred 1 April 1943 to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron EIGHT (PTRon 8) under the command of Lt. Comdr. Barry K. Atkins, USN
    • PTRon 8, assigned to the Southwest Pacific, had action in New Guinea waters at Tufi, Morobe, Kiriwina, and Aitape; at Rein Bay and Talasea on New Britain, and in Philippine waters at Mindoro, Zamboanga, and Tawi Tawi. The
      squadron based for a time at Kana Kopa, Dreger Harbor, and Mios Woendi, New Guinea , and at San Pedro Bay in the Philippines, but had no action at these bases
      • Beached and abandoned 8 August 1943 after being damaged by grounding off Veale Reef, near Tufi, New Guinea
      • The "Zero Chaser", ex-"Green Banana" was later scrapped.

 

[Lucky13]

PT-13....

70' Motor Torpedo Boat:

• Laid down 17 April 1940 as PT-13 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ

• Launched 25 October 1940

• Placed in service 15 November 1940

• Transferred to the Royal Navy 11 April 1941 as HM MTB-262 and assigned to the 10th MTB Squadron

• Bombed and sunk 24 February 1943 off Cape Serratt, Tunisia.
  Specifications:
  
  Displacement 40 t.
  Length 70'
  Beam 19' 11"
  Draft 4' 6"
  Speed 41 kts.
  Complement 15
  Armament: Two twin .50 cal. Browning M2 machine guns in Dewandre turrets and four 18" torpedoes
  
  (MTB-262 added two .303 cal. twin Mk1 Lewis machine guns, one 20mm mount and two depth charges in addition to replacing the 18" torpedoes with two 21" torpedoes)
  Propulsion: Three 3,600shp Packard V12 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.

 

[Lucky13]

78' Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat:

• Laid down 14 August 1942 by Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA

• Launched 6 December 1942

• Completed 12 February 1943

• Placed in service 16 February 1943 and assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron SIXTEEN (PTRon 16) under the command of CDR Russell H. Smith, USN

• PTRon 16 participated in the Aleutian campaign from August 1943 to May 1944. Transferred to the Southwest Pacific, the squadron had action at Mios Woendi, Dutch New Guinea; Mindoro, P.I.; and Brunei Bay, Borneo. It also
  based for a time at Dreger Harbor, New Guinea, and San Pedro Bay, P.I., but had no action from these bases
  • Transferred 13 March 1943 to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron FIFTEEN (PTRon 15) under the command of CDR Stanley M. Barnes, USN
  • PTRon 15 was the first PT squadron sent to the Mediterranean Theater, where it operated as a unit of the British Coastal Forces. It had action throughout the western Mediterranean, basing at Bizerte and Bone, Africa; Palermo,
    Sicily; Salerno, Capri, and Leghorn, Italy; Maddalena, Sardinia; Bastia and Calvi, Corsica, and St. Tropez, France
    • The "Spittin' Kitten", ex-"Gallopin' Ghost" was transferred to Great Britain 17 October 1944 and reclassified HM MGB-187
    • Transferred to Yugoslavia in August 1945 and reclassified MT-7
      Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists transfer to Yugoslavia as October 1944
      • Scrapped in 1955.

 

[Lucky13]

PT-313....

78' Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat:

• Laid down 1 May 1943 by Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA

• Launched 1 July 1943

• Completed 31 January 1944, placed in service under the command of LT Larry Noble, USN, was placed in service with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWENTY TWO (PTRon 22) under the command of LCDR Richard J.
  Dressling, USN
  • Transported to Oran, Algeria on board LST-525
  • PTRon 22, assigned to the Mediterranean, based at Bastia, Corsica, and St. Tropez, France, and had action along the northwest coast of Italy and southern coast of France, operating under the British Coastal Forces. After the end
    of the Mediterranean campaign in April 1945, the squadron was shipped back to the United States for reconditioning and reassignment to the Pacific, but the war ended while the squadron was still in New York
    • Struck from the Naval Register 28 November 1945
    • The "Sea Wolf", ex-"Wanderer"was transferred to the War Shipping Administration 19 July 1948 and sold
    • Fate unknown.

 

[Wayne Little]

good ones.....

 

[Wurger]

Agreed.