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Riverine forces in Vietnam?
The US Navy's Riverine Forces were part of the US Navy's Brown Water Navy; only the second time it was created. The first time was the US Civil War (1861-1865). The Brown Water Navy (Riverine Forces) used: Swift Boats (PCF-Patrol Craft Fast, all aluminum 50' foot long boats); PBR's (Patrol Boat River-fiberglass 32 foot long boats); Alpha boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boats, all steel contructed boats); and Monitors (River Battleships).
Small military vessel?
Traditionally it was vessels under 200 feet long. Vietnam Riverine Boats (Brown Water Navy) were all considered boats; Swift Boats (PCF-Patrol Craft Fast), PBR's (Patrol Boat River), Monitors (River Battleships), and Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boats). Blue Water Naval vessels were Frigates, Destroyers, Cruisers, etc.
What was the naval operation that prevented the infiltration of men and supplies from north Vietnam to south Vietnam threw the waterways?
Operation "Game Warden" was one of them. US Navy "Brown Water Navy" units conducting riverine warfare using PCF-Patrol Craft Fast (Swift Boats); PBRs (Patrol Boat River); ASPBs (Assault Support Patrol Boats-better known as Alpha Boats); and Monitors (River Battleships).
Describe the navies of the north and south?
The Northern navy consisted primarily of Soviet/Chicom (Chinese Communist) supplied P4 & P6 torpedo and patrol boats. The Southern navy consisted of newly transferred/acquired (former USN) Swift Boats (PCF-Patrol Craft Fast); PBRs (Patrol Boat River); Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boat); and Monitors (40mm and 105mm cannon armed riverine battleships).
How Vietnam use the ocean?
The North Vietnamese Navy had Patrol Torpedo Boats; the South Vietnamese Navy countered with (US) Swift Boats.
Who had more boats in Vietnam - army or navy?
Of course you should have specified which nation? Because the South Viet army may have had more boats than their navy. But although it's been said that the US Army during WWII had more boats than the US Navy did in WWII, the USN in Vietnam probably had more riverine boats than the USA did, for the simple reason USN had: Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boats), PBRs (Patrol Boat River), Swift Boats (PCF-Patrol Craft Fast), ATCs (Armored Troop Carriers), and Monitors (Riverine Battleships armed with 105mm cannons). And the USA basically supplied the men (infantrymen) to be landed and the helicopters.
Is there a Mexican navy?
Yes. Nowadays, Mexico has a Navy staffed with 56,000 people, and includes several frigates, destroyers, corvettes and patrol boats. Most ships were bought from the U.S., Spain and Israel with some patrol boats built in Mexico.
How many people survived Vietnam in the navy?
Approximately 174,000 US Navy men served in Vietnam, normally off the coast (Yankee & Dixie Stations) providing air strikes (from carriers) & fire support from the gunline (battleship USS New Jersey, cruisers, and destroyers). Remaining US Sailors were normally assigned to the Navy's Brown Water Navy's Riverine Forces, which manned Swift Boats (PCF-Patrol Craft Fast/all aluminum boats); PBR's (Patrol Boat River/all fiberglass boats); Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boats/all steel boats); and Monitors (Riverine Battleships/cannon armed converted WWII LCMs). Approximately 2,555 US Sailors were killed during the war.
What does P4 means?
Commonly referred to as Patrol boats, the North Vietnamese Navy P4s were actually torpedo boats which attacked the USS Maddox on 02 August 1964 in the Tonkin Gulf.
What was the Swiss navy called?
Being landlocked, Switzerland does not have a navy, but it does maintain a fleet of military patrol boats, armed with two 12.7mm machine guns, numbering 10 in 2006. They patrol the Swiss lakes: Lake Geneva, Lake Lucerne, Lake Lugano, Lake Maggiore and Lake Constance. These boats are sometimes humorously referred to as the "Swiss Navy".
What is a patrol boat river?
A PBR-Patrol Boat River; that's the boat featured in the film "Apocalypse Now." Part of the USN's Brown Water Navy during the Viet War. About 300 of them were sent there, just over a hundred Swift Boats were sent to Vietnam. The Swifts were 50 aluminum riverine boats, the PBRs were about 32 feet long and all fiberglass, using water jet engines (no propellers).
How many navy ships have been sunk?
Well over a dozen US Navy riverine boats were sunk in the Vietnam War; Swift Boats (PCF); PBRs (Patrol Boat River), Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boats); unknown number of Monitors sunk, if any. The ex-USN Aircraft Carrier USS Card was sunk by communist sappers in harbor in South Vietnam.
