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Requesting cutaway drawings of the ELCO please.



Posted By: Phil | Posted on: May 22, 2021 - 12:56pm
Total Posts: 26 | Joined: May 19, 2021 - 10:52am


Here are my Elco 80-foot, cutaway drawings from a calendar I made back in 2008. The artwork was started in the late 1995, and prior to my finding of the Elco 80-foot microfilm. This artwork was drawn from a slew of blueprint copies purchased from PT Boats Inc, and photographs found in various books and on the internet. It would have been much easier if I had, had the microfilm drawing. Imagination played a big part in illustrating these with the available reference at the time. Some day I would like to update them with the more accurate information now available, but arthritis pops up its ugly head more often than not.

Artwork below . . .

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Dick . . . .



Posted By: Dick | Posted on: May 23, 2021 - 12:20pm
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Thanks once again, Dick.

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: May 23, 2021 - 6:07pm
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Thank you Dick. These are Great! Did the two engineers have the day room to themselves?



Posted By: Phil | Posted on: May 23, 2021 - 8:15pm
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Great stuff as always Dick



Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: May 25, 2021 - 12:18pm
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What was the day room typically used for? Just curious here.



Posted By: Phil | Posted on: May 25, 2021 - 5:26pm
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Posted By: Phil | Posted on: May 25, 2021 - 6:21pm
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What was the day room typically used for? Just curious here.



Posted By: Phil | Posted on: Jun 7, 2021 - 7:51pm
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Thank you Dick. These are Great! Did the two engineers have the day room to themselves?



Posted By: Phil | Posted on: Jun 7, 2021 - 7:51pm
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This would have been a good question for the PT vets that used to grace this forum... Sadly most of them have passed on.

As far as I know, they were nobody's "turf" and were used by anybody as well as for 20mm and 50 cal. ammo storage under the seats / bunks. A vet related a story to me in which he was injured on patrol and spent the return trip in the day room. In the Pacific, the heat made the boat's interior unpleasant if not intolerable during the daytime sleeping hours particularly if there was no tree cover for shade.

That's about all I got Phil. And I agree with you about Dick's work, it is great and really helps show what the various structures looked like and how everything went together!




Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jun 9, 2021 - 4:40am
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Hello Phil,
I have asked some of the vets that were around helping restore the PT658 and several were Elco boaters, they told me the 2 or 3 senior enlisted often claimed the Day room as their bunk. I suppose it depended upon who was the crew chief ands the skipper and what they allowed. I am sure that varied between crews and boats.

Jerry Gilmartin
PT658 Crewman
Portland OR

Posted By: Jerry Gilmartin | Posted on: Jun 9, 2021 - 10:43pm
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Interesting, thanks Jerry. Which theater were they in?

At least the day cabin had windows that could be opened:

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Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jun 10, 2021 - 3:02pm
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In Dick Kereseys boot PT 105 he relates the idea of “day room” was for off duty crew to sit in there when underway. He never saw anyone sit in there. On the 105 boat the quartermaster and Chief Gunner appropriated the day room for their private sleeping quarters , which cured the overload in the crew quarters, of course most slept on deck between almost nightly rain showers



Posted By: Grady | Posted on: Jun 11, 2021 - 2:45am
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Thanks Mike, more good info!



Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jun 11, 2021 - 4:16pm
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Dick,

I just wanted to thank you for posting your great Elco cutaway illustrations.

They are magnificent.





Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Jun 15, 2021 - 11:34am
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Hello all. I would like to agree that these cutaways are something special and invaluable. I hope thought is being given to publishing these in a booklet so they are available to model builders as well as historians. They would be very useful references in both cases....take care and be healthy...



Posted By: Rock55 | Posted on: Jun 16, 2021 - 12:02pm
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