Mahogany frame, plywood covering. Engines, guns and fittings could rust, but it's probably just a figure of speech.
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Originally Posted by U-533
up to 40 knts.
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On a good day! With the kind of situations they had in the Solomons, they were lucky sometimes to make 30.
Or, as the old PT-boatman's song goes:
"Some PTs do seventy-five, and some do sixty-nine;
If we get ours to run at all, we think we're doing fine."