The North Vietnamese, however, had maintained their own version of the events which took place. The second attack, which the United States claimed to have occurred on 4 August, was dismissed by the North Vietnamese as a fabrication. However, on 2 August 1964, three North Vietnamese Swatow-class patrol boats attacked the destroyer USS Maddox in what became known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Throughout the Vietnam War the role played by the Vietnam People's Navy (or North Vietnamese Navy) was largely unknown to the public. The primary mission of the Navy was to patrol the coastal areas and the inland waterways. 284/ND signed by General Võ Nguyên Giáp to established Naval Research Board, under the General Staff, on 8 March 1949). On the Vietnam People's Navy was created with the establishment of the General Directorate of Coastal Defence, it formed the basis for the Navy Operational Command (based on the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence decree No. This department has performed both research and training to prepare for combat missions.įollowing the Geneva Conference in 1954, the DRV went about creating its own naval forces. On 8 March 1949, Vietnam established the Department of Naval Research under the General Staff.
Then, on 10 September of that year, General Võ Nguyên Giáp started to build a flotilla as the core of the new navy. On 19 July 1946, Acting President of Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) Huỳnh Thúc Kháng signed into law a decree establishing the modern Vietnamese navy. Further information: Republic of Vietnam Navy A North Vietnamese P-4 engaging USS Maddox (DD-731) in Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964
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