By 1930, it was Higgins Industries, which built and supplied various boats, tugboats and barges. It’s best known for designing a collection of amphibious boats, including PT (Patrol Torpedo ...

Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft.

By war's end, Elco had built 399 boats and Higgins Industries another 199. According to The National WWII Museum, only four still exist, and only PT-305 is fully restored and operational.

New Orleans was home to Higgins Industries, a small boat company owned by entrepreneur Andrew J. Higgins. His company produced the historic landing craft used during the D-Day invasion ...

but none of the Higgins boats were built in Columbus. He moved to New Orleans, and was the founder of Higgins Industries there. This is where he rose to prominence during the war for his design ...

Earlier this week, the boat was featured on the YouTube channel The Other Me. New Orleans-based Higgins Industries — which was owned by entrepreneur Andrew J. Higgins —built several thousand ...

Higgins Industries in New Orleans built several thousand landing craft between 1942 and 1945, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Around 1,500 "Higgins boats" were deployed at Normandy on June ...

Higgins Industries in New Orleans built several thousand landing craft between 1942 and 1945, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Around 1,500 “Higgins boats” were deployed at Normandy on ...

The boat lies less than a mile from Lake Mead Marina and Hemingway Harbor. It was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago, sold to the marina and then sunk, according to dive tours company Las ...

The boat lies less than a mile from Lake Mead Marina and Hemingway Harbor. Higgins Industries in New Orleans built several thousand landing craft between 1942 and 1945, the Las Vegas Review ...