Here's why: PT-109 was rammed and split in two by the Japanese destroyer ... "As dawn came up," remembered Ross,"we found ... the boat under water all the way up to the bow. There was about 15 feet of ...

Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific.

Wartime found him commanding a PT boat and during the Solomons campaign he was friends with PT-109′s commander (and future president) Lt. John F. Kennedy. When Preston led his two wooden craft ...

Periyathalai fishermen salvaged a Sri Lankan boat that was found capsized and floating in the sea, and brought it to the shore. When fibreglass fishing boats from Periyathalai in Thoothukudi ...

Associated Press Photo Kennedy famously served as commander of the torpedo boat PT-109 in the Solomon Islands during World War II — barely escaping death after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer.

This week, a federal jury found a boat owner guilty of seaman’s manslaughter and fraud.The U.S. Department of Justice Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida announced Thursday ...

Two scuba divers allegedly left behind by a tour boat off the coast of Western Australia were spotted in the water by a ferry passenger. Pope released from hospital Scientists make 'huge' $540 ...

A pair who tried to smuggle £100m of cocaine on a fishing boat have been found guilty. The two men from Swansea, 46-year-old Jon Williams, of St Thomas, and 31-year-old Patrick Godfrey ...