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  2. PTF boat - Wikipedia

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    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. They were heavily armed gunboats that were used by the US Navy and by Special forces. [3] The first two PTF boats were commissioned 21 December 1962.

  3. PT boat - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Category:Military boats - Wikipedia

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    A category for various types of boats and small craft which are designed specifically for use by the navy or other branches of the military, or for law enforcement agencies, or for coast guard agencies.

  5. List of museum ships of the United States military - Wikipedia

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    Illinois: Golconda: United States: 1968 Osprey class Fast Patrol Boat: Deployed to Vietnam 1968–69. Sea Scout Ship with all-female crew 1998–2020. Relocated as 1st maritime training ship on Ohio River Jan 2024. [52] USS Pueblo: North Korea: South Pyongan: Pyongyang: United States: 1944 Banner class: Technical research ship [53] USS ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. AVR 661 - Wikipedia

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    AVR 661 is an R-1 type United States Air Force "crash boat", a boat used in air-sea rescues. [2] It is 85 feet long and has two Packard Marine 4M-2500 engines of 1500 horsepower, instead of the normal three that PT boats usually were equipped with.

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  9. Fast attack craft - Wikipedia

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    The first combat use of missile boats was an attack by two Egyptian Soviet-built Komar-class boats on the Israeli destroyer Eilat on 20 October 1967, several months after the Six-Day War. The two boats launched a total of four P-15 missiles, three of which struck the Eilat and sank her with the loss of 47 crew dead or missing and over 90 wounded.

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