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Higgins boat engineroom pictures
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I am looking for pictures of engineroom of Higgins boat and deck plan
and profile drawings of PT 564, Hellcat. Can anyone help?
Victor
Victor K Chun
Posted By: victorkchun | Posted on: Feb 21, 2009 - 8:55am
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Victor,
I hope you are well. You may want to contact Al Ross he was working on a set of plans of the Hellcat based on the Higgins original drawings. I have not seen any photogrpahs of the interior of this boat. It would be interesting to see of the New Orleans library has any in thier collection.
Bill Smallshaw
Bill Smallshaw
Posted By: smallwi | Posted on: Feb 23, 2009 - 11:01am
Total Posts: 134 | Joined: Jun 21, 2007 - 3:02pm
Victor;
The New Orleans Library has 15 blueprints of PT 564 HELLCAT. Included is one below decks arrangement blueprint.
Take care,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Feb 23, 2009 - 11:36am
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Vic,
Here are some of the drawings I've done on HELLCAT based on the original Higgins plans:
[image]http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/alross2/hc_0001.jpg[/image]
[image]http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/alross2/hc_0002.jpg[/image]
[image]http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/alross2/hc_0004.jpg[/image]
Al
Posted By: alross2 | Posted on: Feb 23, 2009 - 11:57am
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Hi Guys,
I want to make clear that the engineroom pictures I need is for regular
Higgins PT boats and not for Hellcat. Thanks
Victor
Victor K Chun
Posted By: victorkchun | Posted on: Feb 23, 2009 - 12:26pm
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Hi Ted,
Thank you for your reply. Can you give me the address and email of the
New Orleans Library? Thanks.
Victor
Victor K Chun
Posted By: victorkchun | Posted on: Feb 23, 2009 - 12:37pm
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Hi Al,
Good to hear from you again. Your partial drawings of the Hellcat are
fantastic, The Earl K Long Library of University of New Orleans
emailed me "scan" drawings of deck plan and profile of Hellcat. They
are so bad that I cannot even read the lines, Very fuzzy. However,
if you think you can use them, I will send them to you.
Victor
Victor K Chun
Posted By: victorkchun | Posted on: Feb 23, 2009 - 12:49pm
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For the Hellcat researchers, here's some of the plans from the LDL site Ted mentioned, most are 50 percent scale:
[url]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/higgins/hellcat/[/url]
I love the library's website but wish the plans were viewable in a larger area size. The plans in the folder are stitched together already from 2000x2000 pixel chunks.
Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Feb 24, 2009 - 7:09am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am
VICTOR;
THE WEBSITE YOUR LOOKING FOR IS AS FOLLOWS:
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/HIC
E-MAIL IS:diglib@lsu.edu.
TAKE CARE,
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Feb 24, 2009 - 11:08am
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Hi Victor,
I can supply you with recent photos of the PT658 Engine room if that would be helpful. Also, if you look on our Photobucket account named "PTBOATS" I have placed a lot of B&W pics of the engine room in the album labeled "PT631 Builders Photos". Here is a link to that page [url]http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/PT631%20Higgins%20Builders%20Photos/[/url]
Maybe you can get some photos that will suit your needs there.
Here is a couple of photos from the photbucket site of PT631 Engineroom
Looking aft
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/PT631%20Higgins%20Builders%20Photos/00000026.jpg[/image]
Looking forward
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/PT631%20Higgins%20Builders%20Photos/00000027.jpg[/image]
Also Bill Maloney went to the Fall River Museum and went inside of the Higgins PT Boat there (PT 796), and posted about 20 pictures of the inside of her engineroom on his website. (Make sure you view both pages 1 and 2) Here is a link to it.
[url]http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/HigginsPTBoat/EngineRoom/index.htm[/url]
OK, so let me know if you want me to send you photos of the inside of PT658. Take care, Jerry PT658 crew
Jerry Gilmartin
Posted By: Jerry Gilmartin | Posted on: Feb 24, 2009 - 11:48am
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Hi Jerry, Thanks for all the pictures. They are just what I need. Please
supply me with photos of PT 658 engine room for I like to check out
as many picture as I can.
Victor K Chun
Posted By: victorkchun | Posted on: Feb 24, 2009 - 8:36pm
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OK Victor,
If I cant find the old ones that I have, I will go and take some digital photos and post them here or send them to you via email. By the way, all of our PT Boat vets at Save the PT Boat Inc on board the PT658 have been using your excellent book as a reference to show to visitors. So anything we can do here to assist you in the future is a form of well deserved thanks to your efforts. We feel fortunate that you are interested in the Higgins 78 foot PT boats. Hopefully that may lead to another one of your wonderful books! Jerry
PS I may need to get your email address. If you want to email me, just look up my profile on this message board and get it from there.
Jerry Gilmartin
Posted By: Jerry Gilmartin | Posted on: Feb 25, 2009 - 4:09pm
Total Posts: 1472 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 11:16pm
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for the kind words about my book AMERICAN PT BOAT IN WW II. Before I forget here is my email: victorkchun@aol.com
I am not sure how to look up your profile on this message board. My
daughter Vicky is the expert on computer and she is not here. Before this book go into second printing I hope you guys out there will let me know
any mistakes you pick up and anything you like to see in it, etc.
Victor K Chun
Posted By: victorkchun | Posted on: Feb 25, 2009 - 5:11pm
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To send an email to any member posting here, just click on the envelope icon appearing to the right on the same line as the member's name at top of message.
If there is no icon (as in Victor's case for example), that means the member has chosen not to publicize his email address.
Posted By: Ed B | Posted on: Feb 26, 2009 - 5:36am
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