{{Short description|Fast patrol boat built in 1968}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox ship |display_title=ital |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=Sewart_Seacraft_now_know_as_Swiftships_in_Berwick,_Louisiana.jpg |image_caption=''PTF-26'' at Sewart Seacraft in Berwick, Louisiana in 1968 }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country= |flag= {{shipboxflag|USA|civil}} |name= |namesake= |owner= * 1968 - 1971 United States Navy Vietnam * 1971 - 1990 US Navy: Naval Amphibious Base Coronado and Pacific Missile Test Center, Port Hueneme * 1997 to 2020 Liberty Maritime Inc. as Sea Scout training ship in Sacramento, California * 2020 - Current Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in Golconda, Illinois (Seaman’s Church Institute). |operator= |builder= Sewart Seacraft (now Swiftships) in Berwick, Louisiana |completed=1968 |in_service= 1968–1990 |homeport= |identification= |commissioned=1968 | decommissioned=1990 |motto= |nickname=The Last American PT Boat |honors= |captured= |fate= |status=Museum ship at Golconda, Illinois |notes= #95PB 684 |badge= }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= ''Osprey'' class |header_caption= |class= Osprey-class fast patrol boat |tonnage= |displacement= 80 tons (105 tons full)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_sc_ptf23.htm|title="Osprey" patrol boats (PTF23) (1968)|website=www.navypedia.org}}</ref> |length={{convert|94.5|ft|abbr=on}} |beam={{convert|24.5|ft|abbr=on}} |height= |draft= {{convert|6.8|ft|abbr=on}} |depth= |power= *2 x {{cvt|3100|hp}} with Napier Deltic *2 x {{cvt|1600|hp}} with Detroit Diesel |propulsion= *2 × 18-cylinder Napier Deltic engines<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/gallery/galPtf23.htm|title=Gal_ptf23|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref> * Now 2 × 16V71 diesel engine |speed= {{convert|40|to|51|kn}} |complement=19 | armament= *1 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannon foredeck<ref name="PCFH">{{cite web | url=https://homelandmagazine.com/patrol-craft-fast/ | title=PATROL CRAFT FAST &#124; Homeland Magazine }}</ref> *2 x .50-caliber Browning machine guns sides *1 x 81 mm mortar foredeck *1 x Bofors 40 mm gun rear }} }} '''''PTF-26''''' is a PTF boat, (Swift boat), museum ship at the Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation in Golconda, Illinois, a ''Osprey'' class. ''PTF-26'' is referred to as "The Last American PT Boat".<ref>{{cite web|title=PTF-26|url=http://www.hnsa.org/hnsa-ships/ptf-26/|website=HNSA|access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ltd |first=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation |title=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. |url=https://lastamericanptboat.com/ |access-date=2024-05-10 |website=Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkqHZt8KKAc ''The Last American PT Boat'' video]</ref> ''PTF-26'' was built in 1968 by the Sewart Seacraft now know as Swiftships in Berwick, Louisiana . ''PTF-26'' is small river gunboat built with an aluminium hull. The United States Navy used ''PTF-26'' in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1971 in the Brown-water navy. ''PTF-26'' has a top speed of speed of {{convert|40|kn|lk=in}} knots. She is an ''Osprey''-class PTF boat and is {{convert|95|ft|abbr=on}} long. PTF boats replaced the wooden World War II PT boats. Four new PTF boats were delivered to the Military Assistance Group (MACV) at Da Nang, Vietnam in 1968, ''PTF-26'' was one of the four boats. The four boats were armed with a 40 mm Bofors cannon aft, two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon forward, two .50-caliber Browning machine guns and on the foredeck, an 81 mm mortar. From 1971 to 1990 she was used by the US Navy at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado and Pacific Missile Test Center, Port Hueneme<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://museumships.us/ptboat/ptf-26|title=PTF 26|website=museumships.us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/content/ptf-26-liberty|title=Ptf 26 Liberty &#124; AMERICAN HERITAGE|website=www.americanheritage.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://esterobaynews.com/news/vietnam-warship-docked-at-south-t-pier/|title=Vietnam Warship Docked At South T-pier &#124; Estero Bay News}}</ref> From November 1997 to June 2020 she was with Liberty Maritime Inc. as a Sea Scout training ship at Sacramento, California.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libertymaritime.com/boats|title=Museum Boats|website=LIBERTY MARITIME}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.libertymaritime.com/blog/farewellliberty|title=Farewell, PTF 26|website=LIBERTY MARITIME}}</ref> On her way to Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation she stopped at Morro Bay, California departing December 14, 2023, then on December 16, the Maritime Museum of San Diego, then the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and then Pickwick Lake of the Tennessee Valley Authority in July 2024. She is now at Golconda, Illinois where ''PTF-26'' is the first historic naval ship in southern Illinois. At Golconda she is operated by Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Cadets, Sea cadets and Sea Scouts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nmmog.org/ptf-26/|title=PTF-26}}</ref>

==''Osprey''-class boats== The four ''Osprey''-class wooden hull PTF boats served in the Vietnam War starting in 1968, after being built at Sewart Seacraft (now Swiftships) in Berwick, Louisiana:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptfOspreyManual.html|title=OspreyManual|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref> ''PTF 26'' now a museum ship at Golconda, Illinois, still in PTF configuration.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ptfnasty.com/ptf26.html|title=PTF-26|website=www.ptfnasty.com}}</ref>

==See also== *United States ''Nasty''-class patrol boat built just before ''PTF 26'' *List of museum ships in North America *{{ship||PTF 3}}

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== External links == * {{Commons category-inline|Fast Patrol Boat (PTF)}} * [http://www.pcf45.com PCF-45 story, by Robert Shirley] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123184016/http://hnsa.org/class.htm#PT HNSA Ship Page: Swift Boats to visit as museums and memorials] * [http://www.swiftboats.org Swift Boat Sailors' Association]

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