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[wheelgun28]

If you guys like PT Boats these videos are great!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8tQP3s9DIQ[/ame]

Its the Elco factory building them. Be sure to watch them all three I think.

Around here we had lots of Elco boats most all of them are gone now.

You can also stories of how they moved the Elco crane as a monument to the company.

 

[Texas Star]

When was PT -109 built?


Until I read this thread, I didn't realize that PT's operated in Europe, too. All I'd seen was about ops in the Solomons and Philippines.


I know Germany had similar E-boats and the British had Motor Torpedo Boats, MTB's.

 

[OFT II]

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like 20 June, 1942.

 

[AKtinman]

Another Higgins boat is the PT658, in Portland, Oregon.

PT658 History Page

 

[walnutred]

My dad was in the Pacific during WW2 and one of the unusual people he mentioned was a PT boat hull repairman. Said they figured the guy had to be in his 60s. The story was the man had lied about his age to get into the Spanish American War, was truthful about his age and served in WW1, and he lied about his age again in 1942. However between wars he worked at a shipyard somewhere in New England building wooden sailing yachts. Someone was smart enough to look the other way to get a volunteer who new their way around building and repairing oceangoing wooden boats.

I'll be in New Orleans the last week in March for a conference and planed on taking a couple extra days to see the sites. If the boat is running then I'll be on her.

 

[shouldazagged]

That's a great story, walnutred. Wish I could have met the guy.

 

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