U.S. Small Combatants, Including PT-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy
Subtitle: An Illustrated Design History
By: by Norman Friedman ; ship plans by A.D. Baker III with Alan Raven and Al Ross.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: December 1, 1987
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9780870217135
Subjects: Torpedo-boats -- United States..; Warships -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Warships -- Design and construction.; Fast attack craft -- United States.; Gunboats.; Submarine chasers.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [517]-521.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; label: 1
title: Introduction; label: 2
title: Subchasers and Eagle Boats; label: 3
title: Second Generation Subchasers; label: 4
title: Small Fast Craft and PT Origins; label: 5
title: The Early PT Boats; label: 6
title: The Wartime PT; label: 7
title: The Postwar PTs; label: 8
title: Postwar ASW Craft; label: 9
title: Small Combatants for Counter-insurgency; label: 10
title: Motor Gunboats and PTFs; label: 11
title: Vietnam: Beginnings; label: 12
title: Vietnam: Market Time and Game Warden; label: 13
title: Vietnam: The Riverine Force; label: 14
title: Vietnam: SEALs and STABs; label: 15
title: The PHM; label: 16
title: Post-Vietnam Small Combatants; title: Appendices; label: A
title: Gunboats; label: B
title: Minor Acquired Patrol Craft: SP, YP, PY, PYc; label: C
title: Crash Boats and Pickets; label: D
title: U.S. Small Craft Weapons: Guns and Rockets; label: E
title: Small Combatants for Export; label: F
title: Fates and Other Notes; title: Notes; title: Notes on Sources; title: Index