HMAS Advance was an Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Constructed during 1967 and commissioned into the RAN in 1968, Advance operated from Darwin and patrolled northern Australian waters.
HMAS Madang, named for the settlement of Madang in New Guinea, was an Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Completed in 1968, the vessel was one of five assigned to the RAN's Papua New Guinea (PNG) Division. The patrol boat was transferred to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force in 1974 as HMPNGS Madang. She was decommissioned in 1989.
A patrol boat is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement. There are many designs for patrol boats, and they generally range in size. They may be operated by a nation's navy, coast guard, police, or customs, and may be intended for marine, estuarine, or river environments.
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 River and in I Corps, in the area assigned to Task Force Clearwater, in an attempt to disrupt weapons shipments. In this role, they frequently became involved in firefights with enemy soldiers on boats and on the shore, were used to insert and extract Navy SEAL teams, and were employed by the United States Army's 458th Transportation Company, known as the 458th Sea Tigers.
The Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), also known as Swift Boat, 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 to interdict Vietcong movement of arms and munitions, transport South Vietnamese forces and insert SEAL teams for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War.
The Japan Coast Guard is the coast guard responsible for the protection of the coastline of Japan under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It consists of about 13,700 personnel. The Japan Coast Guard was founded in 1948 as the Maritime Safety Agency and received its current English name in 2000.
The Egyptian Navy, also known as the Egyptian Naval Forces, is the maritime branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces. It is the largest navy in the Middle East as well as Africa, and is the twelfth largest navy in the world. The navy protects more than 2,000 kilometers of coastline of the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, defense of approaches to the Suez Canal, and it also supports for army operations. The majority of the modern Egyptian Navy was created with the help of the Soviet Union in the 1960s. The navy received ships in the 1980s from China and Western sources. In 1989, the Egyptian Navy had 18,000 personnel as well as 2,000 personnel in the Coast Guard. The navy received ships from the US in 1990. US shipbuilder Swiftships has built around 30 boats for the Egyptian Navy including mine hunters, survey vessels, and both steel and aluminium patrol boats.
The Special Warfare Combat Crewmen (SWCC ) are United States Naval Special Warfare Command personnel who operate and maintain small craft for special operations missions, particularly those of U.S. Navy SEALs. Their rating is Special Warfare Boat Operator (SB).
USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) was a motor torpedo boat tender in commission in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, seeing service in the latter part of World War II. After her Navy decommissioning, she was in commission in the United States Coast Guard from 1946 to 1972 as the cutter USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386), later WHEC-386, the fourth ship of the U.S. Coast Guard or its predecessor, the United States Revenue Cutter Service, to bear the name. In 1972 she was transferred to South Vietnam and served in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as the frigate RVNS Ngô Quyền (HQ-17). Upon the collapse of South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, she fled to the Philippines, and she served in the Philippine Navy from 1977 to 1985 as the frigate RPSGregorio del Pilar (PF-8) and from 1987 to 1990 as BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-12).
The Haitian Coast Guard, officially the Haitian Coast Guard Commission, is an operational unit of the Haitian National Police. It is one of the few law enforcement organisations in the world to combine water policing and coast guard duties while remaining as a policing unit. It operates primarily as a law enforcement agency, with secondary responsibilities in search and rescue.
The Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum is a technical history museum located in Haifa, Israel.
The Nasty class of fast patrol boats were a set of 20 vessels built for the United States Navy to a Norwegian design and purchased in the 1960s for covert operations during the Vietnam War. Following the conflict they remained in service until the early 1980s.
The Tjeld class was a class of twenty fast patrol boats designed and built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the late 1950s. They were used as torpedo boats in Norway, where this type of vessel were called MTBs or motor torpedo boats (motortorpedobåt). They remained in service until the late 1970s, when they were placed in reserve; all were stricken by 1995.
Swiftships is a shipbuilding and marine engineering company headquartered in South Louisiana, USA. Company operates globally and specialized in the construction of small to medium sized vessels made of steel, aluminum or fiberglass. Swiftships is involved in ship design, construction, repair and maintenance activities.
United States Navy submarines, surface ships, and aircraft launch torpedoes, missiles, and autonomous undersea vehicles as part of training exercises. Typically, these training munitions have no warhead and are recovered from the sea and reused. Similarly, new naval weapons under development are launched at sea in performance trials. These experimental units also need to be recovered, in their case to obtain evaluation data. At various points in history, newly manufactured torpedoes were fired as a quality control measure and these, too, had to be recovered before issuing them to the fleet. The U.S. Navy has used a variety of boats to accomplish the retrieval of these test and training munitions. As their missions evolved over the last century they have been variously known as torpedo retrievers, torpedo weapon retrievers, torpedo recovery boats, range support craft, and multi-purpose craft.
PTF-3 is United States Nasty-class patrol boat, now a museum ship at the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum, DeLand, Florida. PTF-3 is called Fast and Nasty. PTF-3 was built in 1962 by the Westermoen Båtbyggeri in Mandal, Norway. PTF-3 is small river gunboat built with an aluminium hull. 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. She is a Nasty-class patrol boat at 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) long. PTF Boats replace the wooden World War II PT boats. The PTF-3 was armed with two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, .50 caliber Browning machine gun and 81mm mortar "Piggyback". PTF 3 and PTF-4 were delivered to the U.S. Navy in 1963 at Little Creek, Virginia. The two boats were tested at Little Creek. Training on the boat started on May 3, 1963 at Naval Base Coronado. PTF 3 and PTF-4 departed Coronado on September 17 loaded on USS Point Defiance) a Landing Ship Dock ship. Point Defiance took the boats to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and then to U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines. At Subic Bay the boats were upgraded and then shipped to Ðà Nẵng Vietnam on the USS Carter Hall. But PTF-3 suffered major damage to its hull during loading and was repaired at Subic Bay arriving at Ðà Nẵn February, 1964. PTF 3 became a Spook Boat, operated by MAC V SOG, Maritime Special Ops. PTF 3 was one of 6 PTF boats that did raids in North Vietnam, attacking shore installations and landing special operations teams. PTF-3 took part in the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident and had mission in Vietnam 9 years. On July 31, 1964 PTF-3 and other boats took part in landing two teams of South Vietnamese commandos on the North Vietnamese held small island of Hon Me, the start of the Tonkin Gulf incident, that lead to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. In 1966 she was transferred to the South Vietnamese Navy. In 1970 she was returned to US Navy and had missions in Cuba and Nicaragua working with the CIA based in Diver Training Facility at Key West Florida. In 1977 she was remove from the US Navy and sold in 1978. From 1978 to 2001 she was docked in South Florida unused with no engines. In December 2001 she started used as Sea Scout ship in Orange City, Florida, purchased in Fort Lauderdale, Florida by Bill Norton of General Propulsion who donated the boat to Boy Scout Troop 544 in December 2001. Troop 544 started a non- profit, 501c3 corporation: PTF 3 Restoration Project, Inc, to handle the restoration. In May 2003 PTF-3 was moves to DeLand Naval Air Station Museum for restoration, arriving on 29 July 2003 with honor guard of Veterans.
PTF boat, 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. They were heavily armed gunboats that were used by the US Navy and by Special forces. The first two PTF boats were commissioned 21 December 1962. The last two PTF were commissioned on 8 April 1968. PFT boats were replaced by the new Patrol Craft Fast (PCF) boats that were more widely used in Vietnam. There are five PTF boats that have survived and are in various state of restoration. The "Torpedo Boat, Fast" designation is a hold over from World War II, as PTF boats were not equipped with torpedoes, as they were mostly used in shallow river waters.
