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Enjoy this comprehensive collection of information on the combatant craft or "Warboats" serving from before WW1 to the present day around the world. Sponsored by Combatant Craft of America, This project started in late 2000 in a conversation about how to capture the history of the boats and the men that served aboard them around the world.  more...
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Warboat History           Resources

Combatant Craft of America

Early Torpedo Boats SEARCH this site
World War I <-Coming Quicklink to Boats
World War II Contact Us
Korean War Modelers
Vietnam War Links
     Boat Support Units Updates
    Vietnam Ordnance Books
Conflicts Readers Questions
Desert Storm Donate to Website
Iraqi Freedom www.combatantcraft.org
Soviet Union www.cg83527.org
New Vessels <-NEW  
Visit our first boat. She is the ex Coast Guard Cutter 83527. She is a 1944, 83' Wheeler with a colorful history. Visit our progress  

View a short opening
clip from They Were Expendable, (John Ford, Director, 1945.) Click PC for media player and MAC for .mpg version.

    Whats new at Warboats.org

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New "John Rapp MST-2 Photos Added
Original SWCC Instructors identified" See it here

● "You have to go out, but you don't have to come back" See it here
Lee Wahler's New Vessels button
The Early Torpedo Boats

Born on the Bayou - SBU-22
SBT-12 Conducts MEATS
Strawbridge MST-2 Vinh Long
Pete Frede with SBU-13 photo history section.
SBU-13 Short Fuze Reunion Dec 1, 2007 at NAB Coronado a Success.
RAT PATROL GUN TRUCK OF SBU13
SBT-12 Pulls Together to Help Evacuees of San Diego Fires
Added the SOC-R boat. Can you add some history?
MST-2 on MST-2 Helo Lifting in 1966
SBU-13 History - Operation Northern Hawk and Ground Swell
Zippo and Douche boat History added.
New history from Bill Burr photos to WWII Crashboats.
CRD-11/SBU-11 Reunion, Sept - 29, 2007 Announced
Orders to Vietnam from Witmeyer
Video of the PTF Base at DaNang
New Section on NSWG-4 added.
Video clip of the PT-658
underway in the Willamette River, Portland, OR July - 2006
ex PTF rider returns from Vietnam with 2005 Photos of the PTF Base at DaNang. Photos of Soviet OSSA II Guided Missile Boats.
Life with the Yabutas, by Tim Johnson

Visit a link to a journalists 1966 photo album from Vietnam
Loaded  the NavShips Boats and Small Craft technical manual.
Added more photos of WPB and PHM
Bill Hellman discusses the SEAFOX
Bill Moreo shares his LSSC history.

Added Stories and Specs on the 85' Crashboat
Old All Hands Magazine - issues on line for viewing
Great new photos of boats in Iraq

          more what's new in updates....

Boat Support Unit - ONE was originally established by CNO on 1 February 1964 as a component command of Naval Operations Support Groups, Pacific.
Its mission was to administer the newly reinstated PTF (Patrol Torpedo Fast) Boat program and to operate high-speed craft in support of Naval Special Warfare Operations. Read the history and view shipmate photos here.
If you have history, photos, questions or just rants, contact one of the following:

Robert "Bob" Stoner, GMCM(SW)(Ret.) for BSU and MST History Info: robertstoner@warboats.org

James "Jim" Thomas, ENC (Ret.) for Shipmate (alumni) names and historical tidbits:  jamesthomas@warboats.org

GMCM James "Jim" Gray (SWCC) Ret. for CRD, SBU & SWCC: jamesgray@warboats.org

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