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[StartQuote] Hi Frank, that is a great piece of PT history. Don't know if this is similar to what they did in Miami Shakedown, but here is some info I had found out about Higgins/NOLA. My father-in-law was on the Pre-Commissioning Detail there (Jun 1943-Nov 1943) after returning from Tulagi. Source: www.ClarionHerald.org "Nautical Reminder of the Past". New Orleans PT Boats Production & Testing at Lake Pontchartrain. By BUDDY STALL To the east and west of the old Pontchartrain Beach area on Lakeshore Boulevard, you will find two 30-foot tall, faded red and white steel poles. One pole stands approximately 150 feet in front of the other. One pole has a square on top, and the other one has a circle. These poles were bright red and white in color when installed in the early 1940s. They were erected for the purpose of clocking the speed of PT-boats built in New Orleans by Higgins Ship Building and Higgins Marine. Once construction of the PT-boats was completed, the vessels were loaded onto trailer truck and taken to the Industrial Canal plant where they were outfitted for the Navy. After they were filled with fuel and readied for testing in Lake Pontchartrain, the tests were conducted by timing the vessel between the two pairs of poles, which were set one nautical mile apart. After 50 years, the poles, although dull in color and rusty, are still there in case those pleasure boats who want to test their speeds can do so between the one-mile nautical markings left from WWII. Randy Finfrock[EndQuote]
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