Higgens Boats

[Subdeacon Joe]

Higgins PT boats on the assembly line, New Orleans, 1943

https://navalhistoria.com/the-pt-boat-elco-thunderbolt/

 

 

A variation of the Elco Thunderbolt equipped with four 20 mm guns.

 

A view from behind the Elco Thunderbolt.

 

 

An early Elco Thunderbolt with six M2 machine guns and two 20 mm guns.

 

 

https://www.ptboatworld.com/PT_Boat_Info/Mark15Mount.htm

 

 

 

 

 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

figure it be a mite big for a fishing boat , BUT it would keep folks off your spot 

 

  CB 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The other Higgins boat is the LCVP Landing craft which is up there with the DUCK, Jeep, DC3, which are credited as being the vehicles that most helped to win the war.

[Irish Pat]

Higgins changed his name 

to Andrew Jackson Higgins as he wanted to be known as the 2nd savior of New Orleans. After the war when the PT boats were being burned in the south Pacific and Formosa he bought their engines and had them shipped to New Orleans to build yachts. the wood they were crated in turned out to have Formosa termites which have eaten up New Orleans 

 

 

[watab kid]

always thought it would be fun to own/restore one of those , a lot more boat than i need but , sure would enjoy driving one 

[Irish Pat]

they have a restored PT that you can ride in Lake Pontchartrain

[Irish Pat]

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Sometime in the last 20 years or so a group of old sailors brought a Higgins boat, landing craft, back to Louisiana and restored it.

[Irish Pat]

they used those in the swamps in Louisiana for oil drilling and exploration and were perfect for the troops. One of my dad’s friends joined the coast guard to get out of action so he thought. he drove landing craft in the Pacific in two or campaigns