YP-63, Yard Patrol boat 19-N-23827 USS YP-29.jpg USS YP-29, Yard Patrol boat in 1941 USN Yard Patrol Boat YP-5.jpg YP-5 USN Yard Patrol Boat 19-N-23860...
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Storm-class patrol boat was a series of fast patrol boats (FPB) consisting of 20 vessels built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. In Norwegian these boats were called...
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A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...
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The Island-class patrol boat is a class of cutters of the United States Coast Guard. 49 cutters of the class were built, of which 3 remain in commission...
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The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 75-foot patrol boats (also called "Six-Bitters") were built during Prohibition to help interdict alcohol smugglers...
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Yard Patrol boat USS YP-29, Yard Patrol boat in 1941 YP-5 USN Yard Patrol Boat USS YP-25, Yard Patrol boat in 1941 63 ft (19 m) air-sea rescue boat 63 ft...
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Australian rapper and part of Australian drill and rap group Onefour Yard patrol boat, a type of training craft, by US Navy hull classification symbol Yellow...
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The 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...
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The Dark class, or Admiralty "Type A", were a class of eighteen fast patrol boats that served with the United Kingdom's Royal Navy starting in 1954. All...
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Cape-class cutter (redirect from USCG 95 foot Cape class patrol boat)
was deferred and the 95-foot boat was used for harbor patrols. The first 95-foot hulls were laid down at the Coast Guard Yard in 1952 and were officially...
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German submarine U-505 (redirect from U-505 (IX C U-Boat))
being the "most heavily damaged U-boat to successfully return to port" in World War II, suffering six botched patrols, and becoming the only submarine...
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Skjold-class corvette (redirect from Skjold class patrol boat)
additional boats, and this was agreed to in 2002. Six Skjold-class vessels replaced the Royal Norwegian Navy's previous fourteen Hauk-class patrol boats. The...
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machine guns. Built: USS Magpie, USS Plover. Harbor Boat Building Company built two yard patrol boats, YP-617 and YP-618. Finished as reefer ships, small...
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USS YP-422 (category Yard patrol boats of the United States Navy)
USS YP-422 was a United States Navy yard patrol (YP) boat that served the United States Navy in World War II from 1942 to 1943. Built in 1941 as the fishing...
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The Nasty class of fast patrol boats were a set of 20 vessels built for the United States Navy to a Norwegian design and purchased in the 1960s for covert...
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Point-class cutter (redirect from Alberto Navarette class patrol craft)
Coast Guard Yard discontinued building the 95-foot Cape-class cutter to have the capacity to produce the 82-foot Point-class patrol boat in 1960. They...
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PT-109 was an 80-foot (24 m) Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president...
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includes notable watercrafts built by the boat building yard. Wave Rider-class patrol boat Cedric-class patrol boat Landing Craft Utility (L 801) Fast Landing...
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acquired Foremost for World War II service as a yard patrol boat. After her conversion into a patrol vessel, she was placed in service on 31 December...
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none were ever delivered. Patrol boat List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy Cianflone, Frank A. "The Eagle Boats of World War I" United States...
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the Offshore Division of the Coastal Forces Squadron (the renamed 1st Patrol Boat Squadron). In February 2005, the Ministry of Defence placed an order...
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series of fast patrol/assault speed boats constructed by the Sri Lanka Navy for use by its littoral warfare units, the elite Special Boat Squadron (SBS)...
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The Guaiquerí-class patrol vessels (Avante 2200 Patrol) are a class of ocean patrol vessels or POVZEE (Spanish: Patrullero Oceánico de Vigilancia de la...
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South Coast Shipyard (category American boat builders)
missions. Harbor Boat Building Company built two Yard patrol boats, YP 639 and YP-640. The ship housed three officers and twenty men. The boats had a length...
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Ocean near Espiritu Santo with two SBD Dauntless dive bombers and the yard patrol boat USS YP-414. The TBM dropped two 300-pound (136 kg) depth charges as...
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June 1942, Hubbard was given command of a patrol boat at the Boston Navy Yard, but he was relieved after the yard commandant wrote that Hubbard was "not...
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with the immobile oil depot ship Robert L. Barnes,: 19 and two old yard patrol boats YP-16 and YP-17. Marine barracks, Sumay, had a strength of 145 men...
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converting a trawler into a Yard Patrol gunboat. Hubbard was relieved of that command after the commandant of Boston Navy Yard wrote that he was "not temperamentally...
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United States lightship Swiftsure (LV-113) (category Yard patrol boats of the United States Navy)
Alaskan Sea Frontier to serve as an examination vessel. Designated as a Yard Patrol Craft YP-397, she was painted grey and armaments added: a 4"/50 caliber...
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formed a joint venture to build three Keka-class patrol boats for the Royal Thai Navy at Silkline's yard at Pak Nam Pran, Prachaub Krirkhan, Thailand. The...
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