United States Nasty-class patrol boat
Norwegian MTB Nasty | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | Westermoen Båtbyggeri, Mandal, Norway John Trumpy & Sons, Annapolis, Maryland |
| Operators | United States Navy United States Marine Corps |
| Built | 1962–1968 |
| In commission | 1962–1981 |
| Completed | 20 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Patrol boat |
| Displacement | 80 long tons (81 t) |
| Length | 80 ft 4 in (24.49 m) |
| Beam | 24 ft 7 in (7.49 m) |
| Draft | 3 ft 10 in (1.17 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Napier Deltic Turboblown diesel engines, 6,200 bhp (4,623 kW) |
| Speed | 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph) |
| Complement | 17 men |
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The Nasty class of fast patrol boats were a set of 20 vessels built for the United States Navy to a Norwegian design and purchased in the 1960s for covert operations during the Vietnam War. Following the conflict they remained in service until the early 1980s.