Now here's a boat for the lake....

[P-3 Guy]

Originally Posted by mowtorman

Through the 70's there was a boat at the Mt. Washington drydock in Center Harbor under a temporary structure that might have been one of the old mail boats, but it was said to have been an old PT boat. It was between the current steamship building and what was Tup Goodhue Marine in the basement of Heath's, must have been there 10 years. Compared to what you could spend $1,000,000 on these days, I'd say the PT boat's a pretty good deal. Probably use at least 500 gallons of fuel to actually go anywhere. Love the old McHale's Navy shots of the various PT boats up and running. Check this out from the PT boat museum:

At the end of World War II, the expense of returning PT boats to the United States from overseas was considered prohibitive, so most boats were stripped of useful materials and burned.

The predecessor to the Sophie C. was the Uncle Sam II, a converted WWII PT boat, that served as the Winnipesaukee mailboat from 1962 to 1968.