An Thoi Naval Base is a former
Republic of Vietnam Navy
The Republic of Vietnam Navy (RVNN; ; ''HQVNCH'') was the naval branch of the South Vietnamese military, the official armed forces of the former Republic of Vietnam (or South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975. The early fleet consisted of boats from ...
(RVNN), United States Navy, and U.S. Coast Guard base in the town of
An Thới An Thối may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:
*, a ward of Bình Thủy District
* An Thới, Kiên Giang, a township of Phú Quốc
*An Thoi Naval Base
An Thoi Naval Base is a former Republic of Vietnam Navy (RVNN), United State ...
,
Phú Quốc
Phú Quốc () is the largest island in Vietnam. Phú Quốc and nearby islands, along with the distant Thổ Chu Islands, are part of Kiên Giang Province as Phú Quốc City, the island has a total area of and a permanent population of appro ...
island in southwest
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...
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History
The base was originally established by the RVNN in the early 1960s as the base for Coastal District IV, renamed the 4th Naval Zone on 16 October 1963.
On 14 December 1964 personnel from the American construction company
RMK-BRJ
RMK-BRJ was an American construction consortium of four of the largest American companies, put together by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to build critically needed infrastructure in South Vietnam, so that the Am ...
arrived at An Thoi on an RVNN motorized junk to improve the base facilities. By 30 April they had completed construction of an ocean pier.
On 24 July 1965, the newly established
Division 11, Coast Guard Squadron One equipped with 9
Point-class cutter
The Point-class cutter was a class of 82-foot patrol vessels designed to replace the United States Coast Guard's aging 83-foot wooden hull patrol boat being used at the time. The design utilized a mild steel hull and an aluminum superstructure ...
s and escorted by the began the transit from
U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay to An Thoi arriving on 31 July and commencing