Sunday, May 19, 2024 - PTF-26 is now crewed up, underway from Snook Bight Marina and northbound. Destination is Mobile, AL where PTF-26 will be on public display at the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico until June 16.

The Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. was founded as a

non-profit charity in February 2018. March 27, 2020, MPTF

purchased Sacramento's Vietnam War gunboat, PTF-26,

intending to build on its impressive 20 year record as operational

museum ship and Sea Scout training vessel with an

award-winning all-female crew.

In summer 2024 PTF-26 will be relocating to Golconda, Illinois

to provide shipboard experiences for youth in the Heartland

previously unavailable. PTF-26 will also be the first historic

naval ship museum in Southern Illinois. Crewed on most weekends

by NJROTC cadets, Sea Cadets and Sea Scouts in the region,

PTF-26 will also serve as an all-weather maritime

Incident Command Post (ICP) for the USCG Paducah Area Maritime

Security Committee in response to natural disasters,

homeland security incidents, vessel groundings or sinking, etc.