Concept of a motor torpedo boat in the future dated 13 March 1943

Drawing by Logan U. Reavis (1887, Saint Louis, USA, 1 June 1958 (Hempstead, USA).

Especially suitable for fast night attacks hit and run close inshore. The type hardly changes faste and heavier armed but keeping a frail hull.

Note

1. He was an industrial and marine working as illustrator and writers for newspapers but also for the United States Lines and other shipbuilding related industry. In the 1950s he made promotional maps and brochures to celebrate the passenger ship ss United States which won the Blue Riband in 1932.

Source

‘The shape of ships to come’ in: The navy of the Future, The Collier’s, 13 March 1943.