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By the way, elsewhere on this forum, Chip Marshall has posted some good information regarding the 486 and 557.  These boats were part of the Ron4 boats that were set aside by BuShips to be used for an OSS project.  They were not used, but the 486 was already partially stripped and converted.  Here is a quote from his post;

"Another group of surplus PT boats (by now stripped of weapons and electronics) was set aside by BuShips to act as remote control range boats for post war Test Charlie, the third atomic bomb test scheduled for Bikini Atoll. The reason for PT boats was their speed (they would be able to retrieve samples quicker. The boats were to be painted all yellow and operated from an overhead aircraft. One of the first decisions made was to release the BuShips hold on the Higgins PTs as they were deemed not suitable for the needs at hand. And, with the cancellation of Test Charlie, the Elco PTs were released and eventually sold off. The incomplete list I have of the PTs slated for Test Charlie is 456,486,487,505,557,559,614,615, and 618. "

Chip Marshall

This does coincide with the pictures we have of the 486 in 1944 being stripped down in VA for an "experiment".  The pictures are dated 1944, but there is film of these same boats on the Hudson River in 1945.  There is no doubt in the Hudson River pictures that the 486 is there.

These pictures are from elsewhere on this forum, but they are the PT-486 when she was being stripped down to be used for the OSS Project.  The date stamp on the picture clearly shows it is the PT-486, but the date is 1944.

On a recent visit to the 486 up in Kingston, NY, I went through the boat and verified items in this picture:
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Are also in this picture which I took inside of the boat June 2017:
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All of the bolt holes for the cribbing are there behind the boards in the frames.

Former crew member of the Big Blue Sightseer ex-PT 486[EndQuote]

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