It took six months to turn around the first operational PT boat in June 1940. The following year, the Navy landed on two designs — a 38-ton, 80-footer from Elco and a 35-ton, 78-foot boat from ...

There were three kinds of PT boats, Pelligrini remembered, the Higgins, the Hawkins and the Elco. “I was on an Elco,” he said, “It was 80 feet long, had three Packard engines ...

NEW ORLEANS | It was the end of the line for the battered hulk of a PT ... boats, with their roaring engines, were frequently called motor torpedo boats. The two most popular types were the Elco ...

"So we started in to simultaneously design AND build a PT ... all 18 boats contracted by the Navy, he barely made a profit. And he found it "galling" when his rival, the giant company Elco ...

Akella's PT Boats: Knights of the Sea takes place in another part of the globe, but does allow you to take control of the same PT-103 class model, of which hundreds were built by Elco between 1942 ...

Sutphen, founded Electric Launch Company, later called ELCO, in Bayonne, New Jersey, to build high-speed launches for the British Navy during World War I. The company built electric launches and ...