Higgins, PT-658 departing Portland Maritme Heritage Festival

[walterk1874]

I read "They Were Expendable" and it still leaves a cold spot in my heart when I think about those left behind. It should be required reading for US history.

[MrFerdell]

Epic...I use to have an Higgins speedboat!

[Polybun]

shame about the exaughst ducts, I would rather hear all three engines pounding through the valley.

[ccarterkk]

Stow yer fenders, ya lubbers!

[drummer78]

Elco or Higgins?  Which one if you had to choose?

[tybeejeffro]

A truly gorgeous beast of a boat ! Too bad we don't still have these around; they would be perfect for anti-pirate patrols...

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

It is beyond a shame that after WWII, tthe government had most of the PTs sunk rather than bring them home. A piece of our history the younger generation should see.

[eltonduet]

My Father and his brothers worked building the higgins boats at the higgins plant on City Park Avenue, New Orleans during WWII One of my Uncles dezined the boat for Andrew Higgins as Mr. Dick Bollinger told me they also helped Bollinger's Shipyard learn how to build boats at thier beggining, now thier a huge company getting navy and coast guard contracts

[loufalce]

Wish somebody would make a decent scale model of one of these beautiful boats.IMHO they are much nicer than the Elco boats.

[Turbojeep23]

those underwater exhaust outlets are a disgrace. i want to hear the triple V12s purring along.

[kisschris77]

my grandfather was a pt man. i never could bring myself to ask him about it other than the few stories he told. i cant comprehend thepain he felt. now that he has passed i wish i knew some more about what he did or the people he lived and worked with.Love and Miss you grampa!!!

[johnnybravo234]

Brass ducts wtf?! Its a PT boat for christs sake! Fix that shit.

[UmiRyuzuki]

@johnnybravo234

It's funny that people don't believe in the vetrans that sailed these boats, or

understand the process that is required to reconstuct the boat as it was built.

No one has said that the brass plates will remain unpainted... They probably

are painted by now,...

[johnnybravo234]

@UmiRyuzuki I am upset because they are muffling the beauttiful sound of the packard/merlins. They should reinstall the exhaust at the original stern location. Its like putting mufflers on a spitfire or p51..

[UmiRyuzki2]

@johnnybravo234 ...

Again, you are confusing an ELCO pt boat with the HIGGiNS pt boat....Different builders different exhaust systems. If you check, you will find that the exhaust is accurate.

[Skytroop]

@johnnybravo234 They are bronze, and they are totally authentic. This is a Higgins boat. I am active with both the USS LIC(L)-713, from which this was shot, and the 658 Boat. Come down to where we moor and maintain the boat and start talking the way you are writing in this post and see how long it takes you to get to shore once you get thrown off the boat. Do yourself a favor next time and do some research before you speak.

[Skytroop]

this video was shot from LCI(L)-713 Woot.  I helped paint those postition angle numbers in the gun tub you see at the beginning.

[babalugatz]

i take part of it back

apparently the packards are still there & actual vets helped restore it.....

[UmiRyuzuki]

I think you confused an Elco PT with the Higgins Pt...

[babalugatz]

exhaust UNDERWATER & QUIET???!!!!

they ruined the restoration of this fine boat, by scrapping the packard engines, as far as i'm concerned.

plus, the orig. exhaust design had provisions for exhaust outlets below water line as well as straight out the transom, which gave them that wonderful triple-V12 sound at full throttle....

what a shame some fool was allowed to revise history.