NEW ORLEANS — PT-305 now sits behind a white tarp in a dry dock at Seabrook Harbor and Marine in New Orleans. Before the Covid shutdown, the refurbished World War II era Navy vessel was in the water, ...
The 305 isn't the only working PT boat — the PT-658 also made by the Higgins Industries boatyard in New Orleans — was restored by a group of PT boat veterans in Portland, Oregon, and has been running ...
PT-305 recently added another and perhaps final leg to its remarkable journey. The patrol torpedo boat was built in New Orleans in 1943 at the Higgins Industries City Park plant. Tested on Lake ...
Following a zigzag path through New Orleans’ Warehouse District, a World War II naval patrol boat reached its final home Saturday, closing out a 79-year career in which it sank three enemy ships in ...