Red Star Lone Star - Ship Identification Question

[johnfrum]

I have a (hopefully) fairly easy question that someone on the forum might know the answer to: what is the patrol boat type on the cover of 'Red Star Lone Star'?

I believe it's also the one that they have illustrations of in some of the rulebooks. I had initially thought it was a PBR but it doesn't look quite right. If someone could help me out, I'd appreciate it as my Google skills have left me down. Deck plans and any game stats would be even better!

With the soon-to-be retirement of the 'Corpus Christi' in my campaign, I'm looking to keep the amphibious nature of my group going and I think that 'patrol boat' would be about right.

[kato13]

Some type of swift boat?



P C F Swift
One of the larger types of craft used in the task of coastal and riverine patrols in the Vietnam war was the PATROL CRAFT FAST. This craft was adapted from a commercial design for oil rig support work in the bay of Mexico. About 200 PCFs were constructed between 1965 and 1966 all by the firm of Stewart Seacraft of Berwick, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Paul even has stats http://www.pmulcahy.com/watercraft/us_watercraft.htm

[Targan]

That looks to me very much like the picture on the module. Nice one Kato.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Targan

That looks to me very much like the picture on the module. Nice one Kato.

My google-fu is the best

Actually what is really funny is I have used the stats from Paul's site, but never looked for a pic. I searched for oil rig support boat and it was number 18.

[kato13]

More info

http://www.swiftboats.net/extras/boa...ifications.htm

[Graebarde]

That's definately what it are.. Swiftys were nice, but the PBR was better IMO. Faster and shallower water with awesome firepower.. bacon savers..

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by kato13

Some type of swift boat?



P C F Swift
One of the larger types of craft used in the task of coastal and riverine patrols in the Vietnam war was the PATROL CRAFT FAST. This craft was adapted from a commercial design for oil rig support work in the bay of Mexico. About 200 PCFs were constructed between 1965 and 1966 all by the firm of Stewart Seacraft of Berwick, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Paul even has stats http://www.pmulcahy.com/watercraft/us_watercraft.htm

Do you guys realize that I don't even know what is on my site any more? I usually have to look.

[johnfrum]

Kato, your Google-fu is strong. Thanks for the info. What a gap in my memory - for some reason when I heard 'John Kerry and Swift Boats' I thought they were actually talking about a PBR. And Paul, thanks for the stats!

I did find some interesting pics of the interior as well:
http://www.pcf45.com/

[kato13]

Originally Posted by johnfrum

Kato, your Google-fu is strong. Thanks for the info. What a gap in my memory - for some reason when I heard 'John Kerry and Swift Boats' I thought they were actually talking about a PBR. And Paul, thanks for the stats!

I did find some interesting pics of the interior as well:
http://www.pcf45.com/

I think I have trained my brain to think in "Google", which is probably why I will never adapt to those new natural language search engines.

I plan on equipping most of my Morrow Project naval forces with a PCF/PBR mix so those pic will come in useful, thanks.

[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.