PETERSON 50-ft (PB) class (Iran)

 6+ U.S. PETERSON 50-ft class PATROL BOATS (PB)

There were a total of 61 units of this class originally ordered in 1976. The first 19 were delivered fully assembled. The rest were shipped in kit form to Arvandan Maritime Corp., Abadan, Iran, where they continued to be assembled into the 1980s. A number of the kits were never completed.

Many were lost during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988).After the Iranian revolution in 1979, these craft operated under the control of...