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During World War II, Elco formed the Elco Naval Division in Bayonne, New Jersey. Nearly 400 Elco PT boats were produced for the U.S. Navy. After experimentation, the first PT boat built in any quantity was the 73-foot type. Later 77-foot and 80-foot types were built. More 80-foot Elco boats were built than any other type of US motor torpedo ...
Elco Holdings, an Israeli industrial group Electric Launch Company , manufacturer of electric boats and yachts, and (during World War II) PT boats and air rescue craft, today Elco Motor Yachts Elco, a type of PT boat designed by the Electric Launch Company and built during World War II
Motor torpedo boat PT-617, also known as Big Red Cock and Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat and represents the United States's most heavily used, highly favored, and combat-tested PT boat type in World War II." [2] She is a museum ship at the PT Boat Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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Elco Ltd. is an international conglomerate holding company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company was founded in 1949 by Alexander Salkind, and has been managed since its establishment by three generations of the Salkind family.
PT-42 was commissioned by the United States Navy and laid down on 5 May 1941 at the Elco Works of the Electric Launch Company (now Electric Boat Company) at their Bayonne, New Jersey shipyard; launched on 12 July 1941; and completed on 25 July 1941. [1]
A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly killed his estranged wife and then made it look like a suicide, authorities said.. Anthony Shea, 49 ...