USS Tempest (PC-2) | |
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USS Tempest (PC-2) | |
Career (US) | |
Ordered: | 3 August 1990 |
Builder: | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
Laid down: | 30 September 1991 |
Launched: | 4 April 1992 |
Commissioned: | 21 August 1993 |
Recommissioned: | 23 August 2008 |
Decommissioned: | 30 September 2005 |
Reclassified: | 1 October 2005 |
Homeport: | Naval Support Activity Bahrain |
Fate: | Recommissioned active USN |
Status: | Active |
Badge: | |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Cyclone-class patrol ship |
Displacement: | 331 tons |
Length: | 174 ft (53 m) |
Beam: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft: | 7.5 ft (2.3 m) |
Installed power: | 2 x Caterpillar 3306 |
Propulsion: | 4 × Paxman Valenta Diesels, 3600 bhp |
Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried: | 1 Volvo diesel powered RHIB |
Complement: | (USN)4 officers, 24 men, 8 Special Forces, (USCG)2 officers, 28 men |
Armament: |
(USN) 2 × Mk38 chain guns 2 × Mk19 grenade launchers 2 × .50 (12.7 mm) machine guns 6 × Stinger missiles |
USS Tempest (PC-2) is the second Cyclone-class Patrol (coastal) ship. Decommissioned 30 September 2005 and loaned to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Tempest (WPC-2). She was placed in 'Commission Special' status until December 2005, when she was formally commissioned as a Coast Guard cutter. She was returned to the US Navy on 22 August 2008. In 2013, Tempest shifted homeport to Naval Support Activity Bahrain.
References[]
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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