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Patrol Boat, Riverine, or PBR, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hulled patrol boat used in the Vietnam War from March 1966 until 1975. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common craft in the River Patrol Force, Task Force 116, and were used to stop and search river traffic in areas such as the Mekong Delta, the Rung Sat Special Zone, the Saigon ...
Following World War II the US Navy had little use for fast attack craft, and most of her PT boats were disposed of shortly after VJ Day.With the involvement in the Vietnam War the Navy saw a renewed need for small combatant craft for "brown water" operations, and they approached the Norwegian Westermoen company, which had built a prototype fast attack boat, the Nasty, and was currently ...
PT boats were not needed during the Korean War. But, as the United States involvement in the Vietnam grew, the Navy saw a need for small combatant boats for the US Navy's "brown water" river operations. [8] In 1962, two prototype Korean War PT boats were put back in to service as PTF-1 and PTF-2.
USS PGM-59 to South Vietnam as Kim Qui (HQ 605) USS PGM-60 to South Vietnam as May Rut (HQ 606) USS PGM-61 to South Vietnam as Nam Du (HQ 607) USS PGM-62 to South Vietnam as Hoa Lu (HQ 608) USS PGM-63 to South Vietnam as To Yen (HQ 609) USS PGM-64 to South Vietnam as Phu Du (HQ 600) USS PGM-65 to South Vietnam as Tien Moi (HQ 601)
The Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), [7] also known as Swift Boat, [7] were all-aluminum, 50-foot (15 m) long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work in the interior waterways as part of the brown-water navy [8] to interdict Vietcong movement of arms and munitions, transport South Vietnamese forces and insert SEAL teams for ...
The United States Navy used PTF-3 in the Vietnam War from 1962 to 1966 in the Brown-water navy. PTF-3 has a top speed of speed of 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph). She is a Nasty-class patrol boat (PTF-3 to PTF 22) at 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) long. [3] PTF Boats replace the wooden World War II PT boats.
The United States will provide $12.5 million to Vietnam to enhance its maritime law enforcement capabilities and combat illegal fishing, the U.S. embassy in Hanoi said on Thursday. The assistance ...
PT-105, an 80' Elco boat, under way. A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II.It was small, fast, and inexpensive to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the war by ineffective torpedoes, limited armament, and comparatively fragile construction that limited some of the variants ...