Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I riro i a Huckins tana kirimana hoahoa i te tau 1941, i te wa e rite ana te Navy ki te whakakore i te kaupapa PT, me te raihana i te whakamahinga o te Quadraconic hull i roto i te hanganga poti PT. I whakawhiwhia hoki e ratou te whakaaetanga ki a Elco, Higgins me te Philadelphia Navy Yard ki te whakamahi i to raatau whaimana whaimana, i whakapiki ake i te kaha o te anga. He 18 nga poti 78-waewae (24 mita) mo nga squadrons 14 me 26 i tukuna i te timatanga o te 1943. I whakawhiwhia rātau ki ngā wāhi motuhake i roto i te
Ko te Canal o Panama, Miami, Florida, te Hawaiian Sea Frontier i Pearl Harbor, i te Central Pacific, me te pokapū whakangungu i Melville, Rhode Island.