Swift Boat PCF-1
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flyingmoose
N 38° 52.306 W 076° 59.661
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A Swift Boat on display along the Anacostia River Trail at the Washington Navy Yard
Waymark Code: WM138YK
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 10/14/2020
Views: 2
Class: PCF Mark I
Launched: 1965
At: Sewart Seacraft, Berwick, LA
Length: 50 feet, 1.5 inches
Beam: 13 feet, 1 inch
Draft: 3 feet, 6 inches
Displacement: 19 tons, 22.5 full load
Speed: 32 knots
Complement: 6 (1 officer)
Armament: Three .50 caliber machine guns (two twinned, one single); one 81mm mortar
Address:
National Museum of the United States Navy
805 Kidder Breese St., SE
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5060
(202) 433-4882
Fax: (202) 433-8200
The Patrol Craft Fast (PCF) or "Swift Boat" as it was affectionately known, was adapted from a commercial design manufactured by Sewart Seacraft. The original boats transported workers to the offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. With minimal changes it was adapted for military use. These aluminum-hulled boats proved to be very useful in the near-shore, river, and bay war of South Vietnam. All told, of the approximately 170 PCF boats built, some 105 were of the Mark I type, the rest being mark II & III.
PCF-1 was the lead in the class and was used for training. She was based out of Coronado, CA until July of 1969 when she was moved to Mare Island, CA. In 1971 she was sent to the U.S. Navy facility in Panama.
In the fall of 1994 PCF-1 was located in Panama. She was transferred to the Naval Historical Center (Naval History and Heritage Command) from the Atlantic Fleet Training Command in 1995.
Type of vessel: PCF Mark I
Admission? Cost?: 0.00
Date: 04/23/1998
Hours of use: Not listed
Parking Coordinates: Not Listed
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