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Motor Torpedo Boat PT-658
Motor Torpedo Boat ''PT-658'' is a ''PT-625''-class Higgins PT boat, built for the United States Navy during World War II. ''PT-658'' is a prime example of US Navy Motor Torpedo Boat development during World War II. ''PT-658'' was in the last group of four boats delivered from the 36-boat contract NObs-1680, October 1944 for ''PT-625'' to ''PT-660''. Delivered and accepted on July 31, 1945, she was fitted with all of the latest armaments and design modifications as a result of lessons learned from previous contracts and battlefield experience. In this way, ''PT-658'' is a showcase of the final form that Motor Torpedo Boats would take by the end of World War II. ''PT-658'' was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 2012. Of three PT boats listed on the National Register, she is the only one maintained in operating condition.
==Service history==
''PT-658'' was one of a group of PT boats assigned to MTB Squadron 45 in April 1945, for transfer to the USSR under Lend-Lease. By the time she was completed on July 30, 1945, this transfer had been cancelled. ''PT-658'' was transported to Bremerton on the deck of ''LST-375'' from New Orleans along with ''PT-657'', ''PT-659'', and ''PT-660'', arriving on September 25, 1945. ''PT-658'' was then stationed at Port Hueneme, California, where on August 27, 1946, she was reclassified as a Small Boat and renumbered C105343 to serve as a missile range patrol boat. On December 3, 1948, she was reclassified as Floating Equipment.〔 ''PT-658'' was then transferred to Naval Air Station Point Mugu, reclassified as ''RCT-13'', and used for patrolling the Point Mugu missile test range for stray craft into the missile landing area, and for towing targets. Also during this period, ''PT-658'' served twice a week as a high speed transport, carrying men and supplies to the USAF D.E.W. Radar Station on Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of Los Angeles in the Channel Island Group. ''PT-658''s survival has been attributed to her completion late in the war, and that she was never sent overseas.
On June 30, 1958, ''PT-658'' was sold to a private individual in the Oakland and Alameda, California area and renamed ''Porpoise''. The private owner changed very little of her structure during the time he owned her. In 1993, she was donated by the late owner's estate to the veterans of Save the PT Boat, Inc. of Portland, Oregon. ''PT-658'' was transported from Alameda to Portland in May 1994 by the 144th Transportation Unit of the Washington National Guard on the deck of the US Army Logistics Support Vessel .
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