USS Tempest (PC-2)
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.jpg) USS Tempest (PC-2) |
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| Career (US) |   |
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| Ordered: | 3 August 1990 |
| Builder: | Bollinger Machine, 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: | Little Creek, VA |
| Fate: | Recommissioned active USN |
| Status: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 |
| Boats and 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) was 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 from the Coast Guard on 22 August 2008.
[edit] 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.
[edit] External links
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