"Preparations are already under way here today at the Bayou Terrebonne plant of the Houma Boat and Contracting Co. to begin the assembly of eight Higgins' motor torpedo boats, part of a large ...

The "PT" stands for Patrol Torpedo (motor torpedo boats or MTBs ... 80-footer from Elco and a 35-ton, 78-foot boat from Higgins Industries. The boats were lightweight if not a little flimsy.

PT-305, built by New Orleans-based Higgins Industries - a company that specialized in manufacturing small boats -- was completed on December 8, 1943. It was then assigned to the Motor Torpedo Boat ...

PT-305, built by New Orleans-based Higgins Industries – a company that specialized in manufacturing small boats -- was completed on December 8, 1943. It was then assigned to the Motor Torpedo ...

Main Higgins products: > Eureka landing boats, which, A.J. likes to say, could have accomplished the Dunkirk evacuation in less than half the time the British took. > Motor torpedo (mosquito ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS – Andrew Higgins just wouldn’t take no for ... In addition to patrol-torpedo boats – one of which, PT-305, has been restored by the Museum – the New Orleans-based company ...

The purchase by the British Admiralty of the motor-driven torpedo boat, built and successfully tested last winter by Messrs. Yarrow, must be regarded as an official indorsement of a new type of ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A P-T 305 torpedo boat is hitting the water this weekend for the first time since WWII. The National World War II Museum restored the boat and is offering rides on Lake Pontchartrain.

New Orleans graduate student Kali Martin never imagined that she would be driving rivets into the hull of a World War II patrol-torpedo boat, just as workers did at the city’s Higgins Industries ...