PT-796 is a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans in 1945, which has had the status of National Historic Landmark since 1986.
A total of 147 were built by this company and Higgins Industries.
Other entries in the competition were three boats built by Andrew Jackson Higgins of Higgins Industries in New Orleans.
More than 20,000 were built, by Higgins Industries and licensees.
She was built at Higgins Industries, New Orleans, Louisiana, completed in December 1944.
The Higgins EB-1 is an American helicopter built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Higgins Industries produced over sixty different items for the US government during the war.
The other industrial properties of the previous Higgins Industries were transferred to ownership of the new company, but were never successful in finding markets for their products.
Higgins Aircraft was a subsidiary of Higgins Industries set up to build aircraft during World War II.