Test how much you know about your heritage and why I need your help preserving it!
This is the second of many more tests to come.
You are alloted 8 minutes to take this test, notice the clock ticking it off above.
When was the "Naval Craft Requirements in a Counter Insurgency Environment" report published and by whom?
1 February 1965, NAVADGRP MACV
June 1965, CDR Arthur Ismay
Mid July 1965, CAPT W. H. Hardcastle Jr.
May 1965, RADM Sunishine (BUSHIPS)
The term "COIN" is used extensively in the "Naval Craft Requirements in a Counter Insurgency Environment" report, what does it stand for?
Counter Insurgency
Craft of Interdiction
Craft of Ocean Interdiction
Craft of Ocean/Inshore Navy
At BUSHIPS, who was tasked with finding a suitable patrol craft that was approximately 50 foot in length, that was fast, and could carry suitable weapons to fill the "COIN" requirements?
CDR Cab Davis
LT Neil Geis
CDR Arthur Ishmay
RADM Elmo Zumwalt Jr
The Navy brought the rights to the drawings for a "Swift Boat" on the spot from what small craft ship builder?
Sewart Seacraft
Halter Marine
Peterson Shipyards
Swiftships
The Navy asked for some modified drawings, that were to include a gun tub, ammo lockers, bunks, and a small galley. How long did it take for these revised drawings to be prepared?
They were ready within a week.
BUSHIPS received them in a little more than a month.
They were delivered to the U.S. Navy in a mere forty (40) days.
Because the Navy had to go out to bids with it's request the drawings were not complete until July 1965.
The Navy required more than fifty military modifications to the basic swift, what did these changes include?
Bunks, a refrigerator and freezer, and a sink within the boat.
Two (2) .50-caliber machine guns, in a Mark 17 turret above the pilot house.
An over and under .50-caliber machine gun/81 mm mortar combination, mounted on the rear deck and the construction of a mortar ammunition box on the stern.
All of the above.
The swift boats' basic design was an adaptation of what type of craft?
An all-metal crew boat (water taxi) being used to support the off-shore oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
A slightly smaller pleasure boat.
World War II PT boats.
Deep sea fishing boat.
After the contracts to build the first swift boats were signed, how much time elapsed before the delivery of the first completed craft?
40 days
7 months
15 weeks
3 months and two days
What was the official US Navy designation for the first swift boats ordered?
Mark I, PCF (patrol craft fast)
Mark I, PCF (patrol coastal fast)
Mark II, Swift Boat
Mark I, Swift Boat
The original swift boats were built in southern Louisiana, in what city?
Berwick
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Avondale
The first two swiftboats completed were delivered to?
US Navy in New Orleans, LA
Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, CA
Subic Bay, Philippines
Saigon, RVN
The Mark II version of the Swift Boat was?
Slightly larger than the Mark I
Featured an enlarged bow
Had a modified deckhouse
Powered by bigger, more powerful Detroit Diesel engines
Only a small number of Mark II swifboats ever entered US Naval service, how many were there and where were they stationed?
Three, one in DaNang and two in Cat Lo
Eight, all in Cam Ranh Bay
Five, all in An Thoi
None were ever used by the US Navy
Of the thirty-three Mark III swift boats used only five ever served in Coastal Squadron One, where were they stationed?
An Thoi
DaNang
Cat Lo, An Thoi and Sea Float
Cat Lo
Swiftboats were constructed for use by the navies of numerous counties. These counties were?
Zaire and Brazil
Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia
Vietnam and the United States
All of the above
Two counties actually built their own swiftboats as part of a United States sponsored program for inexpensive mass production of the craft, they were?
Philippines and South Vietnam
Philippines and Thailand
Thailand and South Vietnam
South Vietnam and Cambodia
These boats were to be made out of locally available products, what was to be used?
Sheet steel
Ferro-concrete
Wooden hulls
Fiberglass
One of these alternative boats became the personal yacht of a person of considerable notoriety, who was it?
Ferdinand Marcos
Pol Pot
Nyguen Cao Ky
Ho Chi Minh
Since swiftboats were used by numerous navies through out the world ... are there any still in service and if so where?
As of 2006 there are no more swift boats in service
Yes, US Navy - four; Vietnam - two; Philippines - eight and Thailand - nine
Yes, Vietnam - two; Philippines - eight and Thailand - nine
Yes, Philippines - eight; Thailand - nine and Malta - two
Are there any Swift Boats still available for veiwing in the United States?
Yes, three MARK I's; PCF-1 at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC; PCF-2 at Tidewater College in Norfolk, VA and PCF-104 at the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.
No, none has survived the years.
Yes, one Mark I, PCF 104 at the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.
Yes, one Mark I, PCF 1 at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, DC.