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...Short History of the Craft Electric boats enjoyed a vogue in the eighteen nineties and just after the turn of the century. The Electric Launch Co. (Elco) was founded in 1892, and built a clientele both fancy and democratic. Elegant battery-powered Elco boats, built in Bayonne City, New Jersey, were owned by Astors, Vanderbilts, and Czar Nicholas II. They were magnificent things, gleaming with mahogany and brass. But the prices were not plutocratic. In 1902, you could get a 16-foot Elco...
...Elco also did gasoline motors, and eventually, during World War II, made PT boats, including John Kennedy's PT-109. The company went out of business after the war, was revived in 1988, and a few years ago was bought by Chuck Houghton, who now turns out electric boats (old design, new battery technology) in a small factory in Highland, New York, across the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie...
...couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes are banning two-stroke engines and trying to quiet themselves...
Frederick F. Bulkely, 77-year-old war worker of the Electric Boat Co. ("Elco" PTs), heard his 32-year-old son Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkely, probably the most decorated public hero of the war, give a speech at the Bayonne, N.J., plant. Father Fred then proudly mentioned his two other sons: Frederick, 54, and Douglas seven months...
Born. To Helen Jepson Dellera, 35, comely Pennsylvania-born soprano; and Walter Dellera, 30, her second husband, Elco (marine) engineer: their first child, a son, Riccardo (after his grandfather, the late Metropolitan Opera maestro Riccardo Dellera); in Manhattan. Weight...