An excellent collection of photos, especially interiors, of the 85 ft. crash boat P-520 in January, 2012 by photographer Greg Bishop. At that time it appeared that the P-520 was going to be donated to the Pacific Battleship Museum, but that never came about. At the opening page SCROLL DOWN.

The home of all the news on P-520, the last 85 ft. air sea rescue boat in its military configuratio

P-750 is the last remaining 104 ft rescue boat, although not in its original military configuration. Her new owner, Melissa Collins, as of Spring 2025 is restoring her and this is a link to her website, still mostly aspirational.

This is a Link to a Sea Scout Base Facebook page. When you get there, click on “Photos” along the left side of the web page. While I don’t highlight Sea Scout boats generally, the saga of R-37A-1357 is broadly typical of many rescue boats that went to Sea Scout service. Military duty, decline, repair and use by Sea Scouts, eventual decay. R-37A-1357 went into service 31 August 1954. About 1961 the US Army Corps of Engineers at Caven Point, NJ acquired R-37A-1357 for conversion to a recreational boat. By late summer of 1972 the engineers were done with her and she arrived at the West Hudson Sea Scout Base in Kearny, NJ where she was restored generally to a rescue boat configuration. It was never a museum quality restoration because the boat was in continual use, training young men in maritime skills. The Sea Scout Base folded in 1996 and R-37A-1357 wound up at a private PT boat restoration organization, Fleet Obsolete, Kingston, NY where she was found in 2008.