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, ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – 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 ...
A World War II torpedo boat that sank three enemy ships and took part in two invasions has returned to its home port. Volunteers at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans spent more than a decade ...
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Struggling with a calamitous downturn in tourist traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the National World War II Museum suspended cruises on its restored 78-year-old PT boat in April 2020 and ...
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 ...
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 (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation’s only fully ...
The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins Industries ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...