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	{{Short description\|Fast patrol boat built in 1968}}		{{Short description\|Fast patrol boat built in 1968}}
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	\|Ship image=File:Sewart_Seacraft_now_know_as_Swiftships_in_Berwick,_Louisiana.jpg		\|Ship image=File:Sewart_Seacraft_now_know_as_Swiftships_in_Berwick,_Louisiana.jpg
	\|Ship image size=300px		\|Ship image size=300px
	\|Ship caption=PTF 26 at Sewart Seacraft ~~now known as Swiftships~~ in Berwick, Louisiana in 1968		\|Ship caption=''PTF-26'' at ] in ] in 1968
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	* 2020 - Current Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in ] (Seaman’s Church Institute).		* 2020 - Current Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in ] (Seaman’s Church Institute).
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	\|Ship builder=] in ]		\|Ship builder= ] (now Swiftships) in ]
	\|Ship completed=1968		\|Ship completed=1968
	\|Ship in service= 1968 - 1990		\|Ship in service= 1968 - 1990
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	\|Ship class= Osprey-~~Class~~ ~~PTF~~		\|Ship class= Osprey-class ]
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	\|Ship displacement= 80 ~~Tons~~ (105 ~~Tons~~ full) <ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_sc_ptf23.htm\|title="Osprey" patrol boats (PTF23) (1968)\|website=www.navypedia.org}}</ref>		\|Ship displacement= 80 tons (105 tons full)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_sc_ptf23.htm\|title="Osprey" patrol boats (PTF23) (1968)\|website=www.navypedia.org}}</ref>
	\|Ship length={{convert\|94.5\|ft\|abbr=on}}		\|Ship length={{convert\|94.5\|ft\|abbr=on}}
	\|Ship beam={{convert\|24.5\|ft\|abbr=on}}		\|Ship beam={{convert\|24.5\|ft\|abbr=on}}
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	\|Ship power=		\|Ship power=
	*2 x ~~3,100~~ hp with ]		*2 x {{cvt\|3100\|hp}} with ]
	*2 x ~~1,600~~ hp with ]		*2 x {{cvt\|1600\|hp}} with ]
	\|Ship propulsion=		\|Ship propulsion=
	*~~Two~~ l8-cylinder ] engines <ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/gallery/galPtf23.htm\|title=Gal_ptf23\|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref>		*2 × l8-cylinder Napier Deltic engines<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/gallery/galPtf23.htm\|title=Gal_ptf23\|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref>
	* Now ~~Two~~ ]		* Now 2 × ]
	\|Ship speed= 40 to 51 ~~knots~~		\|Ship speed= {{convert\|40\|to\|51\|kn}}
	\|Ship ~~crew~~=19		\|Ship complement=19
	\| Ship armament=		\| Ship armament=
	*2 x ]<ref name="PCFH">{{cite web \| url=https://homelandmagazine.com/patrol-craft-fast/ \| title=PATROL CRAFT FAST \| Homeland Magazine }}</ref>		*1 x ] foredeck<ref name="PCFH">{{cite web \| url=https://homelandmagazine.com/patrol-craft-fast/ \| title=PATROL CRAFT FAST \| Homeland Magazine }}</ref>
	*]		*2 x ] sides
	*]		*1 x ] foredeck
			*1 x ] rear
	\|Ship armor= ~~Quarter inch~~ thick aluminum hull<ref name="PCFH"/>		\|Ship armor={{cvt\|1/4\|in}}-thick aluminum hull<ref name="PCFH"/>
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	'''''PTF-26''''' is ], (Swift boat), ] at the Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in ]. ''PTF-26'' is ~~called~~ ~~'''''~~The Last American PT Boat~~'''''~~.<ref>{{cite web\|title=PTF-26\|url=http://www.hnsa.org/hnsa-ships/ptf-26/\|website=HNSA\|accessdate=16 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Ltd \|first=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation \|title=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. \|url=https://lastamericanptboat.com/ \|access-date=2024-05-10 \|website=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. \|language=en-US}}</ref> ''PTF-26'' was built in 1968 by the ] now know as Swiftships in ] . ''PTF-26'' is small river ] built with an ] hull. The ] used ''PTF-26'' in the ] from 1968 to 1971 in the ]. ''PTF-26'' has a top speed of speed of 40 knots. She is an '''Osprey-~~Class~~ PTF~~'''~~ boat ~~(PTF-23~~ ~~to PTF-26) at~~ {{convert\|95\|ft\|abbr=on}} long. PTF ~~Boats~~ ~~replace~~ the wooden World War II ]s. Four new PTF boats were delivered to the Military Assistance Group (MACV) in ], Vietnam in 1968, PTF-26 was one of the four boats. The four boats were armed with ~~aft~~ ], ~~forward~~ two ], ] and foredeck ]. From 1971 to 1990 she was used by the US Navy at ] and ], ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://museumships.us/ptboat/ptf-26\|title=PTF 26\|website=museumships.us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/content/ptf-26-liberty\|title=Ptf 26 Liberty \| AMERICAN HERITAGE\|website=www.americanheritage.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://esterobaynews.com/news/vietnam-warship-docked-at-south-t-pier/\|title=Vietnam Warship Docked At South T-pier \| Estero Bay News}}</ref> From November 1997 to June 2020 she was with Liberty Maritime Inc. as ] training ship in ]. <ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.libertymaritime.com/boats\|title=Museum Boats\|website=LIBERTY MARITIME}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.libertymaritime.com/blog/farewellliberty\|title=Farewell, PTF 26\|website=LIBERTY MARITIME}}</ref> ~~One~~ her way to Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation she stopped at ] departing ~~Dec.~~ 14 , 2023, then on ~~Dec.~~ 16, the ], then the ] and then ] of the ] 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 ] Cadets, ] and Sea Scouts.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://nmmog.org/ptf-26/\|title=PTF-26}}</ref>		'''''PTF-26''''' is a ], (Swift boat), ] at the Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in ]. ''PTF-26'' is referred to as "The Last American PT Boat".<ref>{{cite web\|title=PTF-26\|url=http://www.hnsa.org/hnsa-ships/ptf-26/\|website=HNSA\|accessdate=16 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Ltd \|first=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation \|title=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. \|url=https://lastamericanptboat.com/ \|access-date=2024-05-10 \|website=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. \|language=en-US}}</ref><ref></ref> ''PTF-26'' was built in 1968 by the ] now know as Swiftships in ] . ''PTF-26'' is small river ] built with an ] hull. The ] used ''PTF-26'' in the ] from 1968 to 1971 in the ]. ''PTF-26'' has a top speed of speed of {{convert\|40\|kn\|lk=in}} knots. She is an ''Osprey''-class PTF boat and is {{convert\|95\|ft\|abbr=on}} long. PTF boats replaced the wooden World War II ]s. Four new PTF boats were delivered to the Military Assistance Group (MACV) at ], Vietnam in 1968, ''PTF-26'' was one of the four boats. The four boats were armed with a ] aft, two ] forward, two ] and on the foredeck, a ]. From 1971 to 1990 she was used by the US Navy at ] and ], ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://museumships.us/ptboat/ptf-26\|title=PTF 26\|website=museumships.us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/content/ptf-26-liberty\|title=Ptf 26 Liberty \| AMERICAN HERITAGE\|website=www.americanheritage.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://esterobaynews.com/news/vietnam-warship-docked-at-south-t-pier/\|title=Vietnam Warship Docked At South T-pier \| Estero Bay News}}</ref> From November 1997 to June 2020 she was with Liberty Maritime Inc. as a ] training ship at ].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.libertymaritime.com/boats\|title=Museum Boats\|website=LIBERTY MARITIME}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.libertymaritime.com/blog/farewellliberty\|title=Farewell, PTF 26\|website=LIBERTY MARITIME}}</ref> On her way to Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation she stopped at ] departing December 14, 2023, then on December 16, the ], then the ] and then ] of the ] on July 2024. She is now at Golconda, Illinois where ''PTF-26'' is the first historic naval ship in southern Illinois. At Golconda she is operated by ] Cadets, ] and Sea Scouts.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://nmmog.org/ptf-26/\|title=PTF-26}}</ref>

	==Osprey ~~Class~~ boats==		==''Osprey''-class boats==
	The four Osprey ~~Class~~ PTF ~~boats~~ ~~serviced~~ in the Vietnam ~~war~~ starting in 1968, after being built at Swiftships in Berwick, Louisiana:<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptfOspreyManual.html\|title=OspreyManual\|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref>		The four ''Osprey''-class wooden hull ]s served in the Vietnam War starting in 1968, after being built at ] (now Swiftships) in ]:<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptfOspreyManual.html\|title=OspreyManual\|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref> ''PTF 26'' now a museum ship at Golconda, Illinois, still in PTF configuration.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptf26.html\|title=PTF-26\|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref>
	*'''PTF-23''' is now a ] and diving platform, renamed RV ''Osprey'' in ] with Twin Detroit 12v71 and fuel Capacity of 6,281 US gallons. PTF-23 is now heavily modified. For a time she was named RV ''Angel Lauren'', a research vessel. The PTF-23 was refitted in 2002 by TLG of ], then used for Treasure surveys until 2004. In 2011 used was used in the ] by Anchor Research & Salvage.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptf23.html\|title=PTF-23\|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.wilsonyachtsurvey.com/post/marine-survey-navy-osprey-ptf-23\|title=Marine Survey: Navy Osprey PTF-23\|first=Mark\|last=Wilson\|date=30 December 2019\|website=Wilson Yacht Survey}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-95000/NH-95838.html\|title=NH 95838 PTF-23 class fast patrol boat\|website=public1.nhhcaws.local}}</ref>
	*'''PTF-24''' was sunk as target 1985 by US Navy off San Diego, after working with a water jet propulsion convertion testing in the Osprey990 Program with ]s. PTF-24 worked in Vietnam till 1976. In July 1976 she ran around off ], California.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web\|url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/swiftships.htm\|title=Swiftships\|website=shipbuildinghistory.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptf-24.htm\|title=PTF-24}}</ref>
	*'''PTF-25''' was sunk as target 1979 by US Navy, was in Pemblico Sound near ], ] at the BT-11 target range-Piney Island Range for ] pilot training. PTF-25 was modified to look like a ]. Sank as target at {{coord\|35.026917\|-76.460944\|display=inline}}. PTF-25 worked in Vietnam till 1979.<ref name="auto"/><ref>https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptf25.htm PTF-25 ptfnasty.com]</ref>
	*PTF 26 now a museum ship in Golconda, Illinois still in PTF configuration.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptf26.html\|title=PTF-26\|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref>

	==Gallery==
	<gallery>
	US_Navy_Fast_Patrol_Boat_PTF-24.jpg\|PTF-24 in 1974
	Fast Patrol Crafts operating up a river 2.jpg\|PTF 26 sister boat PCF-23 operating up a river in Vietnam
	Fast Patrol Craft (Swift boat) PCF-32 patrols the Rung Sat Special Zone off the coast of South Vietnam, 13 April 1966 (K-31140).jpg\|PTF 26 shorter sister boat PCF-32
	File:US Navy 041111-N-7949W-007 Visitors to the Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument, on board Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, Calif., have a chance to look at patrol craft and coastal patrol boats on display.jpg\|Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument at ], patrol craft and coastal patrol boats on display
	USS_Flagstaff_and_PTF-23_-_1974.jpg\|] top, experimental coastal patrol and interdiction craft at center, and the PTF-23 bottom, off the coast of southern California in August 1974
	</gallery>

	==See also==		==See also==
	*] ~~(PTF~~ 3 to ~~PTF 22)~~ built just before PTF 26		*] built just before ''PTF 26''
	*]		*]
	*]		*{{ship\|\|PTF 3}}

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Latest revision as of 14:16, 8 January 2025

Fast patrol boat built in 1968

*PTF-26*
History
PTF-26 at Sewart Seacraft in Berwick, Louisiana in 1968

Owner	1968 - 1971 United States Navy Vietnam 1971 - 1990 US Navy: Naval Amphibious Base Coronado and 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	] (now Swiftships) in Berwick, Louisiana
Completed	1968
Commissioned	1968
Decommissioned	1990
In service	1968 - 1990
Nickname(s)	The Last American PT Boat
Status	Museum ship at Golconda, Illinois
Notes	#95PB 684
General characteristics
Class and type	Osprey-class fast patrol boat
Displacement	80 tons (105 tons full)
Length	94.5 ft (28.8 m)
Beam	24.5 ft (7.5 m)
Draught	6.8 ft (2.1 m)
Installed power	2 x 3,100 hp (2,300 kW) with Napier Deltic 2 x 1,600 hp (1,200 kW) with Detroit Diesel
Propulsion	2 × l8-cylinder Napier Deltic engines Now 2 × 16V71 diesel engine
Speed	40 to 51 knots (74 to 94 km/h; 46 to 59 mph)
Complement	19
Armament	1 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannon foredeck 2 x .50-caliber Browning machine guns sides 1 x 81 mm mortar foredeck 1 x Bofors 40 mm gun rear
Armor	1⁄4 in (6.4 mm)-thick aluminum hull

PTF-26 is a PTF boat, (Swift boat), museum ship at the Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in Golconda, Illinois. PTF-26 is referred to as "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 (74 km/h; 46 mph) knots. She is an Osprey-class PTF boat and is 95 ft (29 m) long. PTF boats replaced the wooden World War II PT boats. Four new PTF boats were delivered to the Military Assistance Group (MACV) at Da Nang, Vietnam in 1968, PTF-26 was one of the four boats. The four boats were armed with a 40 mm Bofors cannon aft, two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon forward, two .50-caliber Browning machine guns and on the foredeck, a 81 mm 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 a Sea Scout training ship at Sacramento, California. On her way to Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation she stopped at Morro Bay, California departing December 14, 2023, then on December 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 where PTF-26 is the first historic naval ship in southern Illinois. At Golconda she is operated by Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Cadets, Sea cadets and Sea Scouts.

Osprey-class boats

The four Osprey-class wooden hull PTF boats served in the Vietnam War starting in 1968, after being built at Sewart Seacraft (now Swiftships) in Berwick, Louisiana: PTF 26 now a museum ship at Golconda, Illinois, still in PTF configuration.

References

""Osprey" patrol boats (PTF23) (1968)". www.navypedia.org.
"Gal_ptf23". www.ptfnasty.com.
^ "PATROL CRAFT FAST | Homeland Magazine".
"PTF-26". HNSA. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
Ltd, Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation. "Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd". Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
The Last American PT Boat video
"PTF 26". museumships.us.
"Ptf 26 Liberty | AMERICAN HERITAGE". www.americanheritage.com.
"Vietnam Warship Docked At South T-pier | Estero Bay News".
"Museum Boats". LIBERTY MARITIME.
"Farewell, PTF 26". LIBERTY MARITIME.
"PTF-26".
"OspreyManual". www.ptfnasty.com.
"PTF-26". www.ptfnasty.com.

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Surviving boats	PTF-3 PTF-17 PTF-19 PTF-23 PTF-26
Units	Boat Support Unit ONE (BSU-1) US Navy Seals Mobile Riverine Force Naval Amphibious Base Coronado US Marines CIA
Builders	Båtbyggeri (14) John Trumpy & Sons (7) Sewart Seacraft (4) Bath Iron Works (1)
Classes	PTF prototype Nasty class Osprey class
Notable missions	Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident Operation 34A Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen CIA activities in Vietnam
Similar	Patrol Craft Fast Tjeld-class patrol boat Storm-class patrol boat HNoMS Nasty Jaguar-class fast attack craft Chilean torpedo boat Quidora
Media	Vikings in Vietnam 2024 book Out Over Blue Water 2022 book Men in Green Faces 1992 book
Museum - Restoration	DeLand Naval Air Station Museum (PTF-3) Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park (PTF-17) Worton Creek Marina (PTF-19) Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation (PTF-26)
Related	20-millimeter (0.79 in) cannon 81 mm mortar M2 Browning Bofors 40 mm gun Napier Deltic Diesel l8C Detroit Diesel 16V71
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Osprey-class boats

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