[ARC5] PT-658 - more

[J. Forster]

That certainly sounds like it should merit some support.

Battleship Cove, in Fall River, MA has a PT boat, but it is up on blocks
in a hanger and you can only look through the windows at the interior.

I'd suggest contacting your Congress critter, unless they are totally
leftist.

FWIW,

-John

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> Here is what wikipedia says of PT-658:
>
> "
>     PT-658
>
> Perhaps the best example of a surviving Higgins 78-foot (24 m) boat is
> PT-658, which was
> completely restored to her original 1945 configuration from 1995 to 2005.
> PT-658 is now fully
> functional and afloat, using the three original Packard V12 5M-2500 gas
> engines. It is the
> only 100% authentically restored U.S. Navy PT boat actually operational
> today. PT-658 is
> located in Portland, Oregon, at Navy Operational Support Center Portland's
> Swan Island Pier.
> The group wishes to maintain the boat as a living, breathing artifact
> dedicated to the history
> of the PT force of the Second World War. PT-658 was added to the National
> Register of
> Historic Places in 2012."
>
> Ken W7EKB
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