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 ...

World War II patrol boat restoration in New Orleans Visit the National World War II Museum, where volunteers are restoring PT305, a huge wooden patrol boat made in New Orleans in 1943. A small team, ...

NEW ORLEANS — Engines growling, its bow high above the water and a rooster-tail of spray rising in its wake, the nation’s only fully restored combat veteran PT boat traced the course where it was ...

NEW ORLEANS – After all these years, she still hasn’t lost a step. Senior Captain George Benedetto pushes the throttle forward, and PT-305 – the only combat-hardened World War II boat of its kind to ...

FLAT ROCK ó Pardon World War II veteran Harlan Nelson if he doesn't join in the excitement over the discovery last week of John F. Kennedy's famed PT-109. Nelson thinks saw he saw the remains of ...

President John F. Kennedy had numerous brushes with death before an assassin’s bullet ended his life 50 years ago today. Sickly throughout a childhood he wasn’t expected to survive, JFK had to ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS – Beginning April 1, The ...

After seven years of craning their necks to see aerial activity at the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach, spectators this Memorial Day weekend will get to see a historic maritime attraction for the ...