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Bookmark or Share- Swift Boats | Encyclopedia.comviews 2,176,603 updated. Swift Boats. The U.S. Navy swift boat, or patrol craft, fast (PCF), was used extensively during the Vietnam War to inhibit the movement of enemy troops and supplies in the coastal waters and rivers of South Vietnam.
- Patrol Craft Fast - WikipediaThe 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 ...
- PCF 816 Swift Boat - Maritime Museum of San DiegoTake a 75 minute Swift Boat Tour! Feel the history & power of the twin 12 cylinder Detroit Diesels as you take a behind the scenes tour of San Diego’s military history. Enjoy this unique one of a kind adventure aboard our historic Swift Boat, PCF-816. Be a part of history. Tours began Memorial Day 2014.
- Swift Boats Were Workhorses of Brown Water Navy in VietnamOn Dec. 18, 1965 the U.S. Navy formalized a Brown Water Navy, commissioning the water taxis as Patrol Craft, Fast, or swift boats. From the Cau Mau peninsula in South Vietnam to the western inland waters at the border of Cambodia, the Sailors patrolled the brown water.
- Veterans Long to Reclaim the Name ‘Swift Boat’ - The New York TimesSwift Boat: A 4-Year-Old Verb Fought by Those Certain Veterans - The New York Times. Veterans Long to Reclaim the Name ‘Swift Boat’. John Kerry, hands on hips, and Roy F. Hoffmann,...
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