PTF-3
PTF-3 is United States Nasty-class patrol boat, now a museum ship at the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum, DeLand, Florida. PTF-3 is called Fast and Nasty. PTF-3 was built in 1962 by the Westermoen Båtbyggeri in Mandal, Norway. PTF-3 is small river gunboat built with an aluminium hull. The United States Navy used PTF-3 in the Vietnam War from 1962 to 1966 in the Brown-water navy. PTF-3 has a top speed of speed of 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph). She is a Nasty-class patrol boat (PTF-3 to PTF 22) at 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) long. PTF Boats replace the wooden World War II PT boats. The PTF-3 was armed with two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, .50 caliber Browning machine gun and 81mm mortar "Piggyback".
HISTORY
| Commissioned | December 1962
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| Decommissioned | 1977
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| Nickname | Fast and Nasty
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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
| Displacement | 80 long tons (81 t)
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| Length | 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m)
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| Beam | 24 ft 7 in (7.49 m)
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| Draft | 3 ft 10 in (1.17 m)
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| Speed | 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
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| Complement | 17 men
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