PT BOAT 796 (torpedo boat)

Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts. County/parish: Bristol.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 14, 1986. NRIS 86000092.

1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Patrol torpedo boat PT-796

PT-796 is a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans in 1945. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 as one of a very few surviving World War II PT boats. A "Higgins" boat, she is part of the collection of the PT Boat Museum, which itself is part of the Battleship Cove museum in Fall River, Massachusetts.

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