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PT-708

70' Vosper Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Built by Annapolis Yacht Yard, Inc., Annapolis, MD
  • Laid down, 27 April 1945
  • Launched, 02 June 1945
  • Completed, 23 June 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 November 1945
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 12 August 1946
  • Acquired by Chris's, Inc., Ocean City, NJ for use as a passanger vessel and named Flying Cloud (ON 268080), 1954
  • Sold to Clayton Updegrove, Morro Bay, CA, 1970
  • Burned approximately 56 miles northwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, 14 January 1972

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 39 t.
  • Length 70'
  • Beam 19'
  • Draft 4' 9"
  • Speed 40 kts.
  • Complement 12
  • Armament: Two 21" torpedoes, two twin .50 cal. machine guns and one 20mm mount
  • Propulsion: Three 1,500shp Packard W-14 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PT-613, 616, 619 & 620
    120570801    		 139k Postcard of Flying Cloud at speed, circa 1950s. Dave Wright
    PT-613, 616, 619 & 620
    120570802    		 139k Postcard of Flying Cloud moored at Ocean City, NJ, with her sister Flying Saucer (ex PT-713) in the foreground, circa 1950s. Dave Wright
    There is no DANFS history available for PT-708
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