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PT-59 (more on her later) is credited with sinking Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarine I-3 on December 9, 1942 near Guadalcanal. PT-37 and PT-40 sank destroyer IJN Teruzuki on the night of 11–12 December, barely three months after the Japanese had put her into service. (Thanks to George Avery for his comment bringing this sinking to my attention.) They also damaged at least one cruiser, IJN Abukuma, during the Battle of Surigao Strait (1944). While trying to escape after the battle, Abukuma was bombed by B-24 Liberators and sunk, so PTs should get an assist there.During the 1941–42 Philippines Campaign, PT boats were credited with sinking Japanese ships, but postwar assessment denied the claims. The greatest success they had was interdicting Japanese coastal shipping in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea areas. Since Allied airpower made it extremely hazardous to commit freight ships in those areas, Japanese reinforcement and supply was often done by Daihatsu landing craft (below).Under cover of night, the Japanese would creep along the coast, hoping to avoid notice, but many PT boats carried radar, so the Americans were often able to surprise them and attack from ambush. Both sides up-armored and up-gunned their vessels. Daihatsus often carried 100 or more troops, and they would join in with their personal weapons as well, making these close-quarters fights quite violent. Some PT boats were converted to gunboats by removing the torpedo tubes and installing extra armament.This image shows PT-59, at the time commanded by Lt. (jg.) and future president John F. Kennedy, after conversion to a gunboat. (Kennedy’s more-famous command, PT 109, had been sunk the month before.) Note the radar mast amidships, Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun aft (another at the bow), .50-caliber machine guns behind shields (three per side), and absent torpedo tubes. I’ve read that PTs would sometimes carry 37 mm M3 anti-tank guns, secured to the bow, but more often they would use machine guns and 20-mm anti-aircraft cannon that were normally part of their armament, 40-mm Bofors guns (later also installed on many non-gunboat PTs), plus any other weapons the sailors could scrounge up.This is an aircraft-type 37-mm cannon (not an anti-tank gun) mounted on the bow of a PT boat. It likely came from a P-39 fighter, which used this type of weapon.A 20-mm anti-aircraft mount on a PT boat’s stern. Note depth charges left and right.In Europe, Italian torpedo boats sank several freighters and damaged light cruiser HMS Manchester, which was scuttled (the commander was later court-martialed, it being thought she could have been saved). German torpedo boats (E-boats) claimed sinkings of over 100 freighters and a dozen destroyers, but their best-known victory was sinking two Landing Ship, Tanks (LSTs) during Exercise Tiger, killing 749 American servicemen.U.S. Navy PT BoatsBattle of Rennell Island (Describes the sinking of IJN I-3 and IJN Teruzuki.)John F. Kennedy's WWII-era (PT-59) patrol boat is raised from Harlem River

All the answers on why you probably wouldn't want a surplus pt boat are accurate with regard to the fact that they were cheaply built of not terribly good plywood. They were in fact available surplus at the end of WW-II along with their similar cousins, air-sea rescue boats which had no torpedoes and less power. Many were bought to get the Allison or Packard Merlin engines which were popular for racing for a while. During the 50's and 60's 100+ octane gas was available at almost every gas station and was used in the high powered v-8 engines from all the US car makers. You could tune these engines to run on modern 94 octane, but, yes they were big v-12 monsters that drank gas and a pt had 3 of them.John Wayne famously owned and loved a reengined pt boat with the 3 v-12 engines replaced by a pair of v-8s. A number of pts and rescue boats ended up as sea scout boats.It is hard to picture today just how much surplus was left after WW-II. As a kid, we used to pass huge fields of left over by pb4y (Navy B-24) aircraft just waiting to be scrapped. Even p-51s were ridiculously cheap as there were thousands left over. Jeeps were really available for $5 to $50 depending on condition. A friend worked in logging and surplus halftracks and 2 1/2 ton trucks were so cheap, they didn't bother to fix them if they broke down. So, yes, you could buy surplus PT boats, but there were so many more than anyone wanted that any not in the US were certainly not worth bringing home and once stripped of their engines, armament and other scrap metal, there wasn't much one could do with the hulls besides burning them.

let P be the total principal.I= ( P * t * r )/1001 - (1/3 + 1/4)=5/12P/3* t * 7 / 100 + P/4*t*8/100 + 12P/5*t*10/100 = 5107Pt/300 + Pt/50 + Pt/24 =510let t be 1 year7P/300 + P/50 + P/24 = 51028P+ 24P+ 50P = 510 * 1200102 * P = 510 * 1200P = 510 * 1200 /102 = 6000