PT-305 recently added another and perhaps final leg to its remarkable journey. The patrol torpedo boat was built in New Orleans in 1943 at the Higgins Industries City Park plant. Tested on Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The last PT boat -- PTF-26 -- arrived Monday at the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel is a U.S. Navy gunboat and training vessel. It played a crucial ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

FALL RIVER — History is a living thing in Fall River, where the waterfront is home to the world’s largest collection of naval vessels that saw action in war. Battleship Cove is a Fall River landmark, ...