Elco received the largest share of the contract with contracts for 350 boats, Higgins was awarded contracts for 199 boats, and Huckins was awarded a contract for 18 boats.

For example, the forward half of future President John F. Kennedy's PT-109 ( Elco ) stayed afloat for 12 hours after she was cut in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.

PT-323 ( Elco ) was cut in half by a kamikaze aircraft on December 10, 1944 off Leyte, yet remained floating for several hours.

PT-167 ( Elco ) was holed through the bow off New Georgia on August 10, 1943, by a torpedo which failed to detonate ; the boat remained in action and was repaired the next day.

The ring mount was designed by both Elco and Bell, and designated Mark 17 Twin 50 caliber aircraft mount.

Packard built the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine under license alongside the 4M-2500, but with the exception of the PT-9 prototype boat brought from England for Elco to examine and copy, the Merlin was never used in PTs.

At the time the movie was being planned it was found that no 80 foot Elco PT Boats existed in an operational condition, nor could any be located for use in the movie, since almost all had been destroyed at the end of World War II.

It was an older model 78 foot Elco PT boat that was converted to a gunboat with its torpedoes removed.

In 1908, the station was equipped with a state of the art motor lifeboat ( MLB ) built to a United States Lifesaving Service specification by the Electric Launch Company ( Elco ) of Bayonne, New Jersey.

The Elco was the world's first purpose built MLB and over the next half century hundreds of similar boats would be constructed for lifesaving stations in the US and Canada.

The Elco Company may have had an advantage owing to their experience in small-boat building, having built 550 sub chasers for the Royal Navy during World War I. Additionally, in 1921, they introduced the famous " Cruisette ", ( a gasoline cabin cruiser ).

This small-boat experience helped Elco obtain a contract for 10 boats based on the Scott-Paine Model PT boat.

These boats were tested and determined to be too light for open sea work, but Elco got a contract for 24 larger boats based on a lengthened design.

The Elco Naval Division boats were the largest in size of the three types of PT boats built for the Navy used during World War II.

Five Elco Boats were manufactured in knock-down kit form and sent to Long Beach Boatworks for assembly on the West Coast as part of an experiment and as a proof of concept.

Huckins also granted permission for Elco, Higgins and the Philadelphia Navy Yard to use their patented laminated keel, which increased hull strength.

( Wooden Boat Forum ) During the war, both Elco and Higgins came up with stepped hull designs which achieved significant increases in top speed, (" ElcoPlane " & " Higgins Hellcat ") but the Navy rejected them for full production due to their increased fuel consumption and other considerations.

The 1994 elections were fraught with problems for the CDA: personal conflicts between prime minister Lubbers and lijsttrekker Elco Brinkman, a lack of support for the reforms of old age and disability pensions, and the perceived arrogance of the CDA caused a dramatic defeat at the polls.

Also used were a few 1950s vintage 63 ft USCG rescue launches that were made over to resemble Elco 80 ft torpedo boats, as the few that existed were not available for use.

In early 1915, the British Admiralty selected the US Elco company for the production of 50 Motor Launches for anti-submarine work, British industry being at maximum capacity.

A somewhat odd footnote is that even though only half as many Higgins boats were produced, far more survive ( seven hulls, 3 of which have been restored to their World War II configuration ), than of the more numerous Elco boats, thus seemingly demonstrating the superior construction of the Higgins boat.

The Elco and Higgins companies both used lightweight techniques of hull construction which included two layers of double diagonal mahogany planking utilizing a glue impregnated cloth layer between inner and outer planks.

By war's end, more of the Elco boats were built than any other type of motor torpedo boat ( 326 of their boats were built ).

Forward of the chart house of some early Elco boats ( PT20 through PT44 ) were twin. 30 cal ( 7. 62 mm ) Lewis machine guns on pedestal mounts.

Actual U. S. Navy 80-foot Elco PT Boats were used throughout the filming, albeit remarked with false hull numbers that would have been in use in late 1941 and early 1942.

Conflicting sources give different accounts of how the three boats used in the movie were created, but the most accepted explanation is that they were converted 85 foot U. S. Coast Guard, U. S. Navy or U. S. Air Force aircraft rescue launches modified to resemble the Elco PTs.

Although many 78 ' Higgins and 80 ' Elco PT boats were likely delivered from the manufacturer in such a paint scheme, all historical records indicate that the real PT 109 and the other boats in its squadron were painted green in order to better blend into their daytime anchorages or moorings adjacent to island jungles at forward operating bases.

The Elco boats made the best showing with Elco edging the Huckins in light and heavy loaded speed tests ( versus ), however the Huckins had a tighter turning circle ( Huckins 336-P / 368-S yards in diameter compared to Elco 432-P / 382-S yards in diameter ) and pounding factor ( Elco pounded 61 % more than Huckins ).

El Camino Real Charter High School ( also known locally as " ECR " or " Elco ") is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

Henry R. Sutphen of Electric Launch Company ( Elco ) and his designers ( Irwin Chase, Bill Fleming, and Glenville Tremaine ) visited the United Kingdom to see British motor torpedo boat designs.

* PT-20: Elco ; 3 Packard 1, 200-hp engines ; equipped with special propellers ; special strengthening added to hull framing and deck.

The Higgins boats had the same beam, full load displacement, engine, generators, shaft power, trial speed, armament, and crew accommodation as the Elco boats.

Of the remaining Elco boats only three hulls ( one restored ) are known to exist at this time.

Although neither Elco nor Higgins ever chose to use the Huckins design on their boats, rather choosing to use designs of their own.

Early PT boats ( Elco PT20 through PT44 ) mounted Dewandre plexiglas enclosed hydraulically operated rotating turrets.

And in the hunting land, this hunger was considered to be a noble thing.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

This is not to assume that his work was without merit, but the validity of his assumptions concerning the meaning of history must always be considered against this background of an unprofessional approach.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

We fail to see how such procedure resulted in any prejudice to petitioner's contention, which was considered by the appeal board and denied by it.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

When air travel was in its infancy, the sky was considered big enough and high enough for all.

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

The southern half, however, on account of its underbracing, was considered by boat owners a menace to navigation.

In 1803 Oersted returned to Copenhagen and applied for the university's chair in physics but was rejected because he was probably considered more a philosopher than a physicist.

This, however, can only be considered approximate, as the diameter of the pulley was increased by the build-up of tape and the tape was occasionally removed from the pulley during the runs.

However, the nonspecific staining by the Af in tumor sections was considered bright enough to be confused with the staining of small amounts of WTV antigen.

The engineer had more than seven years of experience in the firm, was well trained, was considered a hard worker, was respected by his fellow engineers for his technical competence and was regarded as a `` comer ''.

For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.