Higgins 76-foot PT boat

The Higgins 76-foot PT boat was a one-off prototype motor torpedo boat, PT-70, built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans and delivered to the US Navy on 30 June 1941. Navypedia calls it the prototype MTB of the 76 foot Higgins type. It was about 21.9 metres long with a beam of about 6.07 metres, a full displacement of about 40 tonnes, three petrol engines on three shafts and a top speed of about 42 knots. Its armament was two twin 12.7 mm machine guns and four 533 mm torpedo tubes. NavSource records trial speeds of 43.81 knots light and 41.5 knots heavy and gives the boat a complement of 15. It was reclassified as district patrol craft YP-107 in September 1941 and served at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island, until struck from the Naval Register in October 1945.