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SOUTH VIETNAM
COASTAL FORCES
SWIFT type patrol craft (1965-1967/1968-1970)


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HQ3825 1970

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

107 boats, presumably HQ3800-3887 and later

Sewart Seacraft, Berwick, USA: 107 boats

1965-1967 // 1968-1970: 107 boats

unknown

107 boats (to North Vietnam 1975)

none

unknown



Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t23
Length, m

15.3

Breadth, m

4.00

Draught, m1.07
No of shafts2
Machinery2 General Motors diesels
Power, h. p.960
Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, tdiesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/90, 1 x (1 - 81/12 M29 mortar + 1 - 12.7/90)

Electronic equipmentradar
Complement6


Graphics


<i>HQ3825 </i>1970
HQ3825 1970


Project history

All-metal inshore patrol craft (PCF).

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.