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PTF-3

PTF-3 Nasty Class Patrol Boat in Deland, Florida
History
Owner	1962 - 1966 United States Navy - Vietnam 1966 - 1970 South Vietnamese Navy 1970 - 1977 US Navy - Cuba and Nicaragua 2001 - 2003 Sea Scout 2003 - current DeLand Naval Air Station Museum
Builder	Westermoen Båtbyggeri, Mandal, Norway
Completed	1962
Commissioned	December 1962
Decommissioned	1977
In service	1962 - 1977
Nickname(s)	Fast and Nasty
Status	Museum ship at DeLand Naval Air Station Museum, DeLand, Florida
General characteristics
Type	Patrol boat
Displacement	80 long tons (81 t)
Length	80 ft 4 in (24.49 m)
Beam	24 ft 7 in (7.49 m)
Draft	3 ft 10 in (1.17 m)
Propulsion	2 × Napier Deltic Turboblown diesel engines, 6,200 bhp (4,623 kW)
Speed	38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Complement	17 men
Armament	1 × Bofors 40 mm gun 2 × 20 mm gun 1 × "Piggyback" 81 mm mortar 1 x 0.50 machine gun

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 (70 km/h; 44 mph). She is an Nasty-class patrol boat boat (PTF-3 to PTF 22) at 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) long. PTF Boats replace the wooden World War II PT boats. The PTF-3 was rmed with two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, .50 caliber Browning machine gun and 81mm mortar "Piggyback". 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 island of Hon Me, the start of the Tonkin Gulf incident. In 1966 she was transffered to the South Vietnamese Navy. In 1970 she was returned to US Navy and had missions in Cuba and Nicaragua working with the CIA. In 1977 she was remove from the US Navy. In December 2001 she started used as Sea Scout ship, purchased in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (without engines) by Bill Norton of General Propulsion who donated the boat to Boy Scout Troop 544 in December 2001. 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.

Gallery

• Royal Norwegian Navy motor torpedo boat in 1960.
• U.S. Navy PTF boats traveling at high speed during trials off the Virginia Capes in May 1963
• PTFs in 1971.
• PTF-3 sister ship PTF-5 in Chesapeake Bay, in 1973

See also

• List of museum ships in North America

References

1. Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 (1995) Naval Institute Press, Annapolis ISBN 1-55750-132-7
2. "Coast Guard Piggyback Weapon". www.pcf45.com.
3. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-94000/NH-94491.html
4. Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 (1995) Naval Institute Press, Annapolis ISBN 1-55750-132-7
5. https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/2014/07/31/deland-naval-air-station-museum-to-remember-ptf-3-torpedo-boats-key-battle/30676189007/
6. http://www.ptf3restoration.org/aboutptf2.html
7. https://www.woodenboat.com/register-wooden-boats/ptf-3-fast-and-nasty

29°03′59″N 81°17′02″W / 29.06639°N 81.28389°W / 29.06639; -81.28389

External links

• The "Nasty Class" Fighting Boat (Dan Withers)
• The Navy’s Nasty Class Patrol Boats (HistoryNet.com, World_History_Group)

• Military boats
• Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
• Riverine warfare
• Vietnam War ships
• 1962 ships
• Torpedo boats of the United States Navy
• Napier Deltic
• Ships built in Mandal, Norway