We're all familiar with Dockwise and the other companies who offer boat transport using a semi-submersible transport ship.
In looking up some information I needed for the part of my PT story I'm currently working on, I just came across these photos.* Thought they provide an interesting contrast to how larger boats are moved today.* A lot of labor (and wood and steel) involved here.
The ship in this case is the SS Joseph Stanton, a Liberty shop.* PTs were also shipped to the combat theatres on the decks of tankers.* In fact it was a gunner on a PT in a shipping cradle on the tanker USS Ramapo that is generally credited for scoring the first hit against a Japanese plane in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Note that one of the PTs on the Stanton is 109 on it's way from the Elco plant via the Norfolk Navy Yard to the Pacific theatre.
-- Edited by Marin on Sunday 26th of February 2012 09:04:24 PM
In looking up some information I needed for the part of my PT story I'm currently working on, I just came across these photos.* Thought they provide an interesting contrast to how larger boats are moved today.* A lot of labor (and wood and steel) involved here.
The ship in this case is the SS Joseph Stanton, a Liberty shop.* PTs were also shipped to the combat theatres on the decks of tankers.* In fact it was a gunner on a PT in a shipping cradle on the tanker USS Ramapo that is generally credited for scoring the first hit against a Japanese plane in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Note that one of the PTs on the Stanton is 109 on it's way from the Elco plant via the Norfolk Navy Yard to the Pacific theatre.
-- Edited by Marin on Sunday 26th of February 2012 09:04:24 PM