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The US Navy's "Brown Water Navy" in South Vietnam (1965-1971) was used for the same purpose as the US Navy's "Brown Water Navy" during the US Civil War (American Civil War) in 1861-65...interdiction (gun runners, etc.) and control of the rivers (inland waterways).
The USN Brown Water Navy in RVN (Republic of South Vietnam) was a riverine force consisting of many types of river craft; most of which were converted WWII landing craft. However, the main (most famous) ones were:
1. Swift Boats (PCF-Patrol Craft Fast)-All aluminum, 50 feet long, 5 crewmen & 1 officer commanding, 2 fifties forward, 1 fifty over and under (81mm mortar, lanyard fired) aft, twin screws, diesel engines. These warboats could strike along the coastline (ocean) or inland.
2. Monitors-All steel converted from a WWII USN LCM (Landing Craft Medium/Mechanized). 105mm cannon in single turret or 40mm cannon. Optional two flame thrower port/starboard aft of fore turret. About 60 ft long.
3. PBRs (Patrol Boat River)-Seen in the film Apocalypse Now. All fiberglass, twin jet propulsion (no screws), 32' long, 5 crewmen no officer in charge (senior enlisted man captained the boat). Armed with fifities.
4. Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boat)- All steel construction (some sources state mostly steel with aluminum super structures). These were the destroyers and mine sweepers of the Riverine Forces. The Alpha Boat was the ONLY USN riverine vessel to be designed and built especially for the Viet War by the Gunderson Brothers in Oregon state. The others were from either existing modified civilian designs or converted WWII craft.
Plastic model kit companies (Revell) have marketed the Swift Boat & Tamiya has marketed their PBR (which they labeled a Pibber). The French RAG (River Assault Group) boat from their war (1946-1954) was also marketed by a model kit company in the 1990s.
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