The Maritime Pastoral Training Foundation, Ltd. was founded as a non-profit charity in February 2018. The Internal Revenue Service confirmed MPTF's 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status on March 18, 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 fall 2023 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 So. 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.