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  2. Patrol Boat, River - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    Patrol boat, river (PBR) [ edit ] The Patrol Boat, River was acquired for the Vietnam War: 718 of these 31/32-foot long boats were purchased with a peak of 250 used in Vietnam.

  4. Uniflite - Wikipedia

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    The first Uniflite boat an all fiberglass 17' outboard. Uniflite soon added a 14', an 18' and a 20' outboard and inboard/outboard boats, followed by a 25' express cruiser followed by a 31' and a 34' boat. Uniflite was the only boat builder exclusively using fire-retardant resins in the production of pleasure boats. [citation needed]

  5. A Vietnam-era patrol boat is coming to Burlington, SE Iowa ...

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    A refurbished Vietnam-era patrol boat will travel the Mississippi River next month, stopping in Burlington along the way to offer veterans a ride.

  6. Patrol Craft Fast - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. US to donate small boats to Vietnam to boost maritime law ...

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    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 ...

  8. United States Nasty-class patrol boat - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Strike Assault Boat - Wikipedia

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    The Strike Assault Boat (STAB) (also known as the SEAL Team Assault Boat), was a fast and heavily armed riverine assault boat developed by the United States Navy for use in the Vietnam War in 1970. The mission of the STAB was nighttime Waterborne Guard Post duty (WBGP) and daylight troop/SEAL platoon insertion and extraction operations in the ...