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Fast patrol boat]]built in 1968

PTF 26
PTF 26 at Sewart Seacraft now known as Swiftships in Berwick, Louisiana in 1968
History
Owner
BuilderSwiftships in Berwick, Louisiana
Completed1968
Commissioned1968
Decommissioned1990
In service1968 - 1990
Nickname(s)The Last American PT Boat
StatusMuseum ship at Golconda, Illinois
Notes#95PB 684
General characteristics
TypeFast patrol boat
Displacement80 Tons (105 Tons full)
Length94.5 ft (28.8 m)
Beam24.5 ft (7.5 m)
Draught6.8 ft (2.1 m)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed40 to 51 knots
Crew19
Armament
ArmorQuarter inch thick aluminum hull

PTF-26 is Patrol Craft Fast, (Swift boat), museum ship at the Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in Golconda, Illinois. PTF-26 is called The Last American PT Boat. PTF-26 was built in 1968 by the Sewart Seacraft now know as Swiftships in Berwick, Louisiana . PTF-26 is small river gunboat built with an aluminium hull. The United States Navy used PTF-26 in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1971 in the Brown-water navy. PTF-26 has a top speed of speed of 40 knots. She is an Osprey-Class PTF boat (PTF-23 to PTF-26) at 95 ft (29 m) long. PTF Boats replace the wooden World War II PT boats. Four new PTF boats were delivered to the Military Assistance Group (MACV) in Da Nang, Vietnam in 1968, PTF-26 was one of the four boats. The four boats were armed with aft 40mm Bofors cannon, forward two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, .50 caliber Browning machine gun and foredeck 81mm mortar. From 1971 to 1990 she was used by the US Navy at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado and Pacific Missile Test Center, Port Hueneme From November 1997 to June 2020 she was with Liberty Maritime Inc. as Sea Scout training ship in Sacramento, California. One her way to Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation she stopped at Morro Bay, California departing Dec. 14 , 2023, then on Dec. 16, the Maritime Museum of San Diego, then the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and then Pickwick Lake of the Tennessee Valley Authority on July 2024. She is now at Golconda, Illinois were PTF-26 is the first historic naval ship in South Illinois. Golconda, Illinois she is operated by Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Cadets, Sea cadets and Sea Scouts.

Sister boats

  • PTF 26 shorter sister boat PCF-23 operating up a river in Vietnam PTF 26 shorter sister boat PCF-23 operating up a river in Vietnam
  • PTF 26 shorter sister boat PCF-32 PTF 26 shorter sister boat PCF-32
  • Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, patrol crafts and costal patrol boats on display Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, patrol crafts and costal patrol boats on display

See also

References

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