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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 ...
Patrol boat, river (PBR) ... The Patrol Craft Fast, also known as the Swift Boats, were acquired for the Vietnam War; 193 of these 50 foot boats were purchased. [7]
They also mounted additional weaponry—a 40mm gun turret forward and an 81mm mortar amidships—and carried four additional sailors to help man those weapons and operate the boat. The 81mm mortar was the only indirect-fire weapon fielded by River Flotilla 1 and, with the assistance of an artillery observer, could hit targets up to 4,000 yards ...
PTF boat, (short for Patrol Torpedo, Fast) are fast United States Navy patrol boats introduced in the early part of the Vietnam War. The PTF designation was give to 26 boats with four different boat designs. The PTF boats were the Vietnam War "brown water" river boats version of the World War II PT boats.
A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in littoral zone waters. [1] The term originated in the United States Navy during the American Civil War, when it referred to Union forces patrolling the muddy Mississippi River, and has since been used to describe the small gunboats and patrol boats commonly used in rivers, along with ...
The boat was powered by two 430 hp General Motors 12V71 diesel engines giving a top speed of 14.8 knots and it expelled its exhaust directly into the water reducing noise and smoke emissions, making it the quietest river patrol craft. The boat carried some 650 gallons of diesel fuel, allowing an operational range of 130 nautical miles (240 km ...
A refurbished Vietnam-era patrol boat will travel the Mississippi River next month, stopping in Burlington along the way to offer veterans a ride.
The Patrol Boat, River (PBR, sometimes called "Riverine" and "Pibber") was a fiberglass hulled vessel also designed and used for inland river operations during the Vietnam War, and became an icon of water operations during the war due to its use in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.