USS Tempest (PC-2)
.jpg) USS Tempest (PC-2) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
  United States | |
| 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: | in active service |
| Badge: |
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| 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 (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 |
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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. While deployed to the Persian Gulf on 24 August 2016, USS Squall fired three warning shots from a .50 caliber machine gun at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy fast attack craft that approached within 200 yards of Tempest. The fast attack craft had ignored radio calls to veer off as well as warning flares.[1]
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.
External links
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