Two months later, the Navy gave Elco the contract to make 11 boats using Scott-Paine's designs (designated PT10 – PT20). It took six months to turn around the first operational PT boat in June 1940.

KINGSTON — PT Boat 728 of Fleet Obsolete splashed into the Rondout Creek Tuesday afternoon for a season of short, educational goodwill tours and an extended "Profiles in Courage" tour through ...

PT Boats, or just PT’s ... PT’s slowly evolved over the course of the war into three sub-types; the largest one being the PT-103 built by the Elco company’s naval division.

By the time the boat show arrives at the Javits Center, maybe the streets will be plowed. The New York Boat Show will run Jan. 19-23, and by that time the folks who live in the outer boroughs might… ...

WWII: Fascinated with the 'David and Goliath' aspect of service on patrol torpedo boats, Frank Andruss, 44, has made a video diary of veterans' oral histories.

Prior to Kennedy's command of PT-59, the boat, Angelini said, was credited with sinking a Japanese submarine. According to the Battleship Cove Facebook page , the first pieces of the ELCO PT-59 ...

Donald Shannon, PT Boat curator at Battleship Cove, said the crew from the show visited at the end of September and filmed footage on the ELCO PT Boat PT 617; and in the PT Boat Museum inside of ...

His first PT boat, he says, made him a profit of $28.60 "on a risk of over $100,000." ... And he found it "galling" when his rival, the giant company Elco, ...

The National World War II Museum said the 78-foot (24-meter) patrol torpedo boat — PT-305 — is the only fully restored and operational PT boat in the U.S. that took direct part in the conflict.

Akella's PT Boats: Knights of the Sea takes place in another part of the globe, but it does let you control the same model, of which hundreds were built by Elco between 1942 and 1945.