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To: Red Badger

The Deltic also powered the USN Nasty Class Patrol Boats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Nasty-class_patrol_boat)

In 1972, I had a FRiend whose brother was involved in overhauling the PTFs in Subic Bay, RP. He arranged for several of us to get a ride on a PTF after the overhaul was complete.

The PTF had two Deltics; 6200 hp! I will tell you that was one Hellofaboat!

That day is one of my more memorable days in WESTPAC!


6 posted on 04/30/2026 8:47:52 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS. )
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To: Taxman

That is a great story!


7 posted on 04/30/2026 8:53:21 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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