Fast Patrol Torpedo Boats / PTF-17
The PTF Boats of the Tonkin Gulf: PTF-17, PTF’s in general and later-on Coastal River Division 21 Ops: Updated 8/17/2025 – A Work in Progress. Maybe more than you ever […]
Fast Patrol Torpedo Boats – PTF
Coastal River Division 21 Comm Center
CRD21 Comm Center: Well, lets start here because this is one place the boats communicated with (and this site is about Combat Comms!). We built a shore Comm Center in […]
Coastal River Division 21 / Ops
UPDATED 16JAN21 On 16 June, 1973, CRD21 was Commissioned at the Great Lakes Naval Base near Chicago as the US Navy began to turn its attention to NATO operations in […]
PTF Firepower
Gunnery exercises aboard PTF’s. (Bad Guys take note…) UPDATED 8/18/2025 Below is a “shot” of GMG2 “Bobby” and GMG2 (SEAL) “Bob” preparing to fire an 81 mm mortar flare round. […]
SEAL Training Ops at Coastal River Division 21
The Coastal River Divisions were stood up in-CONUS in 1972 after redeployment from Vietnam. They had PTF’s, PG’s, PBR’s and other combat craft to retain the capabilities employed by the […]