After WWII, many PT Boats were destroyed in theater, sold to other countries or sold as surplus. Many boats were burned at Samar after being stripped of useful equipment. For more detail about the fate of PT Boats see the links below.

The Miss Belmar was a former Elco 80 footer. As a civilian boat, she had 20 feet of the stern removed in order not to have an engineer onboard. I don’t have further details about what was done to convert the boats to civilian use. If you have any useful information, please let me know via email.

The Miss Belmar started out as PT-577. After WWII, the boat was sold, converted and named Dianamite II sometime in 1946. It was then sold and renamed to Big Flamingo and used as a sightseeing boat out of Wildwood New Jersey. Sold again and renamed Miss Belmar. Sold again and renamed Capt Louie out of Atlantic Highlands New Jersey.

From what Bob told me, this boat left Belmar waters and was wrecked someplace around the Bahamas. That’s all the information I have about it’s disposition. The last picture to the left with the ‘remodeled’ superstructure is a Polaroid picture I scanned that is blurry, so there is no clearing it up. Bob also told me they use a mix of colors to paint the boat and the color of the hull wound up being pink and the trim was green. Will have to see what color I paint it when I get around to building it. Bob insists I stick to the original colors.

Bob Nash is a good friend of mine and he gave me some of the pictures I used on this web site. From the pictures to the left I am building a model of the Miss Belmar and will be using the thirty three inch hull of a Dumas PT Boat kit. With a good eye, it’s not a problem determining dimensions by the sizes of objects and people in the photo. You also need to use your imagination about boats. Bob was able to supply me with information about the layout of the boat. I have some notes and some scribble diagrams of the boat layout from his description.