Patrol Craft Fast
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The Patrol Craft Fast, also known as the Swift Boat, were all-aluminum, 50-foot long, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy, initially to patrol the coastal areas and later for work
PCF-53 on patrol.
PCFs carry a group of South Vietnamese marines up a narrow canal for insertion.
A preserved PCF 104 boat in the middle, located at the Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument, Naval Amphibious Base Coronado.
Brown-water navy
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A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in inland waters and nearshores. Brown-water navies have existed since the ancient era, sinc
Patrol Craft Fast
…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…
A United States Navy Monitor, a brown-water navy vessel, firing napalm during the Vietnam War
Barroso, a Brazilian ironclad of the central casemate type, the first vessel to dash past the Fortress of Humaitá on the River Paraguay
The large landing craft NRP Alfange supplying the garrison of Bambadinca, Portuguese Guinea, in the early 1970s.
Swift Boat in Vietnam