www.warboats.org 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

NSW Boat Units

Resources

Combatant Craft of America
Early Torpedo Boats Boat Support Units SEARCH this site

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 @www.cg83527.org
World War I Coastal River Squadrons Quicklink to Boats
World War II Special Boat Units Contact Us
Korean War Special Boat Teams Modelers
Vietnam War SWCC Links
      Vietnam Ordnance NSW Unit Alumni Roster Updates
Other Conflicts Other Stuff Books
Desert Storm Soviet Union Vessels Readers Questions
Iraqi Freedom New Vessels <-NEW Donate to Website

To All:   BSU / CRS CRD / SBU / SBT Members
 Naval Special Warfare Survey 

Your service as Combatant Craft Crewman in Naval Special Warfare was indeed special. Do you miss the comradeship and sense of belonging? 

A proposal has come up to for a Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman Association.  This survey will give us a idea if the project is worth pursuing. We are looking for at least 200 men that would like to be part of this organization.  Please let us know if you would like to see this happen. Your comments and ideas welcome as this is the first basics of forming stage.        More Information HERE

Cool SBT-22  Picture of the Month! Fish eye lens reveals new perspective on the SOCR  
 CPOTM Archive Here
    What's new at Warboats.org ?

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●New - Added new SBU-12 story from Steve Chance.
●New - Added new photos of PTF-22 on the rocks
●Added 50 new SBU-12 photo from Tim Sanchez.
 ●SBU-XI Reunion info added HERE
●Added a huge list of VA related contact and website information.
 ●Added new Vietnam Page and 4 new Stoner Brown Water Navy articles
 ●Added "The Best Kept Secret" by Tom Stanley, GMG-2, SBU-20
 ●Added photos and notes from Rodger Berley EN1 and Jack Birge from BSU-1
 ●Many new photos added see UPDATES
 ●SBT-22 story in Popular Mechanics, Smoke on the Water
 ●SBU-11 legend "Doc" O'Boyle on Last Patrol
 ● NSWC-4 adds NAVSCIATTS
 ● SBU-12 photos Tim Curry, GMC, SWCC.
●CRD-13 photo from Big SKI. 
 ●Naval Special Warfare Operational Support Group redesignated.
 ●BSU-1 Weapons Test, David Goff, BSU-1
 ●The Beginning, Life in the Locks, Why SBU-26 was the Best  Howie Nash, SBU-26
 ●Bill Sherrill CDR USN, Retired - article on SBU-12 Maintenance and Handling
●The Maritime Executive - Patrol Boats: Plugging the Smallest Holes in Port Security
●SWCC PHOTO ESSAY #2
 ●John Staehle, MST-2 Letter
 ●PTF-13 Weapons Test update - BSU-1
 ●Craig Chapman SBU-12  and SBUDET1 photos from around the world.
 ●Bob Lindahn  story of MST-1 photos of Typhoon Ester and the PTF Damage.
●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....

 
Family and friends are looking for any SBU history of deceased
shipmate  EO1 Edward Reynolds. Notify Jim Thomas with details.

NEW - Discussion Forum added with the purpose to reveal the
history of small military boats in actions around the world. We discuss
their past use and future selection.

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
Lee Wahler, Retired LCDR SWO and former PBR Patrol Officer for the NEW VESSELS section. (Shown here on a new Mini-ATC bound for Columbia)

Dan Withers, former ETN-3, USS Stoddard, DD-566 and warboats webmaster.

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