NEW ORLEANS – A PT boat that sank three vessels in World War II and has since been painstakingly restored is back on a waterway near New Orleans, where it was built and tested. The National World War ...

Just after 7 a.m. Saturday, a 78-foot-long wooden patrol torpedo boat from World War II rolled through the Warehouse District, starting at the National World War II Museum. After it passed around and ...

When you think of Naval vessels, you're likely to conjure up gargantuan aircraft carriers and submarines. Chances are you would never think of a PT boat, and that's if you even know what one is. The ...

Joseph Cirlot of Moss Point is fourth from left in back row of this photo of the first crew to serve aboard PT boat 305, now under full restoration at the WWII Museum in New Orleans. The father of ...

NEW ORLEANS – Andrew Higgins just wouldn’t take no for an answer. Stuck in a bind in May 1941, the Nebraskan behind Higgins Industries – makers of some of the most iconic American ships used during ...

With a throaty rumble from its three 1,500-horsepower Packard engines, PT Boat 305 eased back from its dock near Lakefront Airport on Thursday, its maiden voyage with a new mission: giving passengers ...

It was a run-in with the enemy that was too close for comfort, and more than 70 years later, the details remain vivid in the mind of a Navy veteran who served aboard a legendary ship. US Navy ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National World War II Museum has nearly finished restoration of a patrol torpedo boat that sank two armored German supply barges and carried U.S. commandos to French shores.

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 ...

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 ...