Red Star Lone Star - Ship Identification Question

[natehale1971]

I think I have the blueprints/deckplans for the swift boat, fast somewhere on one of my computers. as soon as i can find it, i'll post them here.

[Targan]

Swift boats were a Norweigian design weren't they? I recall reading in a book (perhaps the one about the SOG units that we've talked about on the old forums) that in the Vietnam War they even had some Norweigian crew members for a while.

[headquarters]

Originally Posted by Targan

Swift boats were a Norweigian design weren't they? I recall reading in a book (perhaps the one about the SOG units that we've talked about on the old forums) that in the Vietnam War they even had some Norweigian crew members for a while.

anecdotal story I heard from some Norwegian navy guys that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was brought about by some involvement by Norwegian training crews on boats that got caught up in some sort of military action that again led to said famous incident .

I dont know..but they told a good story !

[Targan]

Originally Posted by headquarters

anecdotal story I heard from some Norwegian navy guys that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was brought about by some involvement by Norwegian training crews on boats that got caught up in some sort of military action that again led to said famous incident .

I dont know..but they told a good story !

I suspect they were telling the truth (or something close to the truth). I've read something similar. They were also used to transport captured North Vietnamese fishermen to some special forces camp on an island. The speed of the fast boats and the fact that those captured couldn't see where they were going meant the location of the island stayed secret.

[Raellus]

Interesting. In 1962, the American SOG bought some Norwegian Tjeld class torpedo boats for various black ops along the N. Vietnamese coast (Targan mentioned one of them). They were fast (47 knots) and heavily armed (1 40mm & 1 20mm cannons, .50-cals, and 81mm direct-fire mortars). The official navy designation was PTF (patrol, type fast) but the crews called them "Nasty" for their speed and firepower.

They were raiding the coast of N. Vietnam around the same time and place as the Gulf of Tonking incident so it's possible that HQ's overheard story is true...

[Marc]

Originally Posted by natehale1971

I think I have the blueprints/deckplans for the swift boat, fast somewhere on one of my computers. as soon as i can find it, i'll post them here.

That would be great. I've been looking for a good deckplan of the swift boat to post it in the maps thread. I've found a pair of them, but not good enough to use them in a game without some work (poor quality, unreadable texts, etc.).