T-boats are up today, and seeing some in Baltimore led me into the archives. Click here for a short history of Carina, a T-boat I saw in Clayton NY but never got a good photo of. Here’s a database of the existing ones, although the info looks dated. Here’s another article on T-boats and Sea Scouts.
Enjoy. Higgins hull #424 from 1952.
taken in January 2011
Higgins hull 434 from 1952
taken in September 2015
Higgins hull 504 from 1953
taken in September 2015
Higgins hull 513 from 1953
taken in July 2014
same boat . . . stern
All photos taken by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated but fascinating to me: the October 2015 National Geographic article on river transport on the Congo River in the DRC. The article describes conditions not unlike those I encountered on my travels on the River in 1973 and 1974. Click here for a post I did about that time.
Totally related: Here’s the book to read on Higgins.
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September 30, 2015 at 1:24 pm
GP Cox
Great post. I’ve always admired the power of the tug.