Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden).
Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and sections in a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built under roof and moved to a nearby waterway for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries
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- 1942-07
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