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Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three (MTBRon 3) was a United States Navy squadron based at Cavite, Philippines, from September 1941 to mid-April 1942. It was commanded by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and made up of six motor torpedo boats: PT-31, PT-32, PT-33, PT-34, PT-35, and PT-41, the last as the squadron flagship.
The first two boats, the 65 foot Q-111 Luzon and the 55 foot Q-112 Abra were ordered simultaneously from the British builder John I. Thornycroft & Company of Southampton based on their existing coastal motor boat design. [6] Q-111 differed in that she was larger and had fixed deck torpedo tubes while Q-112 had two torpedoes in stern troughs. [3]
Offshore Patrol. The Offshore Patrol (OSP) also known as the Mosquito Fleet was a small naval branch of the United States Army, intended for inshore defense of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. It was active from February 9, 1939 to June 30, 1946. The OSP became part of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) on July 26, 1941 ...
After Manila was declared an open city on 26 December 1941, the squadron operated out of Sisiman Cove , to the immediate east of Cavite and north of Corregidor where the American PT boats were also based. [4] The squadron along with its American counterparts, were service by the submarine tender, Canopus which was moored at Cavite Naval Base.
Website. marivelesbataan.gov.ph. Mariveles, officially the Municipality of Mariveles (Tagalog: Bayan ng Mariveles), is a municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 149,879 people making it the most populous in the province.
33 ft (10 m) [1] Draught. 18.5 ft (5.6 m) [1] Installed power. 313, net horsepower [1] Propulsion. 2-propellers, 2 x T3 Cylinder steam, [1] oil. BRP Banahaw (ex- Casiana, ex- Cassandra) was a British-built yacht that later served as the presidential yacht of the Commonwealth of the Philippines between 1936 and 1941.
Coron is the third-largest island in the Calamian Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about 170 nautical miles (310 km) southwest of Manila and is known for several Japanese shipwrecks of World War II vintage.
Trabajador (1931) Trabajador. (1931) Commandeered by United States Navy and assigned to the 16th Naval District on 13 December 1941. [2] 6 cyl. Diesel, Union Diesel Engineering Co., Oakland, California [1] Trabajador was a 111 foot (33.8 m) tug launched in 1931 from the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock for Visayan Stevedore-Transportation Company and ...