On Mar 14, 8:45 am, Charlie Morgan wrote:
On 13 Mar 2007 15:39:03 -0500, Dave wrote:

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:41:13 -0400, Charlie Morgan said:

The only boat that was nicknamed a "Higgins boat" was the LCVP.

Is that what the program said--that that was the only boat nicknamed the
"Higgins boat"-- or is it just that no other boats were referred to in the
program as "Higgins boats?"

If you can produce some cites calling any other style of boat a "Higgins Boat",
I'd appreciate it. I am relying on more than just the TV show. It was just by
coincidence that I happened to see that show very recently. Joe B. is a
blubbering idiot, and has no idea what he's yapping about.

CWM

Higgins produced 199 78-foot boats. The Higgins boats, built by
Higgins Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana, were 78-foot (24 m)
boats of the PT-71 class. The Higgins boats had the same beam, full
load displacement, engine, generators, shaft power, trial speed,
armament, and crew accommodations as the 80-foot (24 m) Elco boats.
Numerous Higgins boats were sent to the USSR and Great Britain at the
beginning of the war, so many of the lower squadrons in the USN were
made up exclusively of Elcos. The first Higgins boats for the US Navy
were used in the Battle for the Aleutian Islands (Attu and Kiska) as
part of Squadron 13, and others in the Mediterranean against the
Germans. A somewhat odd footnote is that even though only half as many
Higgins boats were produced, far more survive (six hulls, 2 of which
have been restored to their WW2 configuration), as do the more
numerously built ELCO boats of which only two hulls (one restored) are
know to exist at this time.

Joe