Doug Reese wrote:
On Nov 19, 4:10 pm, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:
"Doug Reese" wrote in message

...
On Nov 19, 6:56 am, wrote:

Those SWIFT Boats in Vietnam, originally, they were used for ferrying
offshore oil rig people back and forth to and from offshore oil rigs.So
says the article athttp://airbornecombatengineers.typepad.com
cuhulin
Interesting, but . . . that link doesn't woth for me . . . .

Doug Reese

Try this one instead...

http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/

Thanks, but I did what I should have done earlier . . . . . Google
it

Turns out they were originally used to ferry people to/from oil rigs,
but not in Vietnam, in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was that type of boat, or something reasonably close, that the Navy
had someone build when they realized they needed a boat with that type
(use in shallow water) of capability.

Doug Reese

Are you sure you're not talking about beach landers evolving from swamp
boats?