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PTF 26
CG-30615
History


Owner	1968 - 1971 United States Navy Vietnam 1971 - Naval Amphibious Base Coronado - 1990 Pacific Missile Test Center, Port Hueneme 1997 to 2020 Liberty Maritime Inc. as Sea Scout training ship in Sacramento, California 2020 - Current Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in Golconda, Illinois (Seaman’s Church Institute).
Builder	Swiftships in Berwick, Louisiana
Completed	1968
In service	1968 - 1990
Nickname(s)	The Last American PT Boat
Status	Museum ship at Golconda, Illinois
General characteristics
Type	Fast patrol boat
Displacement	80 Tons (105 Tons full)
Length	95 ft (29 m)
Beam	24.5 ft (7.5 m)
Draught	6.8 ft (2.1 m)
Installed power	2 x 3,100 hp with Napier Deltic 2 x 1,600 hp with Detroit Diesel
Propulsion	Two l8-cylinder Napier Deltic engines Now Two 16V71 Desiel Engine
Speed	40 to 51 knots
Crew	19

PTF-26 is Fast patrol boat, (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. 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 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.

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