As of 2026-10-12, T38 tops the list with 93 km/h.
- #1 T38 — 93 km/h
Swedish motor torpedo boat built in 1951
source Wikidata - #2 Motor Torpedo Boat PT 796 — 81 km/h
torpedo boat of the United States Navy
PT-796 is a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans in 1945. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 as one of a very few surviving World War II PT boats. A "Higgins" boat, she is part of the collection of the PT Boat Museum, which itself is part of the Battleship Cove museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 Motor torpedo boat PT-617 — 74 km/h
torpedo boat of the United States Navy
Motor torpedo boat PT-617, also known as Big Red Cock and Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat and represents the United States's most heavily used, highly favored, and combat-tested PT boat type in World War II." She is a museum ship at the PT Boat Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. The 80-foot (24 m) Elco type boat was the predominant type and is the same type as the famous PT-109 commanded by John F. Kennedy; the 78-foot (24 m) "Higgins" boat is the other type. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 ORP Błyskawica — 73 km/h
1936 Grom-class destroyer
ORP Błyskawica is a Grom-class destroyer which served in the Polish Navy during World War II. She is the only Polish Navy ship to have been decorated with the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military order for gallantry, and in 2012 was given the Pro Memoria Medal. Błyskawica is preserved as a museum ship in Gdynia and is the oldest preserved destroyer in the world. Błyskawica is moored next to the Dar Pomorza. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 HSwMS Småland — 69 km/h
1952 Halland-class destroyer
HSwMS Småland (J19) is a Swedish Halland-class destroyer. She and HSwMS Halland were the only ones built of their class. Two more ships were ordered but they were never completed. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #6 USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. — 68 km/h
1945 Gearing-class destroyer
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) is a former United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer. The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, son of the former U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and older brother of future President John F. Kennedy. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. served, with interruptions for modernization, until 1973. Among the highlights of her service are the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the afloat recovery teams for... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 HMCS Haida — 68 km/h
1943 Tribal-class destroyer
HMCS Haida is a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943 to 1963, participating in World War II and the Korean War. She was named after the Haida people. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #8 USS Cassin Young — 68 km/h
1943 Fletcher-class destroyer
USS Cassin Young (DD-793) is a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy named for Captain Cassin Young (1894–1942), who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 PVL-105 Torm — 67 km/h
1966 Estonian fast attack craft previously operated by Norway
source Wikidata - #10 Turbinia — 64 km/h
1894 steam turbine powered boat
Turbinia is the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894 by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time, Turbinia was demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897 and set the standard for the next generation of steamships, the majority of which would be turbine powered. The vessel is currently located at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, while her original powerplant is... Read more on Wikipedia.
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