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NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Coastal
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Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USCGC Tempest (WPC 2)
ex-USS Tempest (PC-2)

Call sign:
November - Tango - Alpha - Charlie

Tempest served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

Cyclone Class Coastal Patrol Ship: Laid down, 30 September 1991 at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Lockport, LA; Launched, 4 April 1992; Commissioned USS Tempest (PC-2), 28 August 1993; Transferred to the Coast Guard 1 October 2004 and USCGC Tempest (WPC 2).

Specifications: Displacement 328.5 t(lt), 331 t.(fl); Length 170'; Beam 25'; Draft less than 8'; Speed 35k; Complement four Officers, 24 Enlisted, eight Special Warfare or USCG det.; Armament two Mk38 25mm; two .50 cal. machine guns, six Stinger missiles, two Mk19 automatic grenade launcher, one Mk52 Mod 0 chaff launcher; Propulsion four 3,350shp Paxman diesel engines, four shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
45k	-	Photo by EN1(SW) Tommy Beard, USN Submitted by Jack Spratt, LT, USNR
40k	-	Photo by EN1(SW) Tommy Beard, USN Submitted by Jack Spratt, LT, USNR
128k	-	.
88k	U.S. Navy photo	Joe Radigan
195k	1 April 1993 Lockport, LA The patrol craft Tempest is moored to a pier while undergoing construction at the Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyards. Defense Visual Information Center photo DN-SC-93-04170 by OS2 John Bouvia	Bill Gonyo
60k	28 Oct 1993. A starboard bow view of the coastal patrol ship Tempest moored next to the museum ship Barry (DD-933) at the Washington Navy Yard. Tempest is assigned to Special Boat Squadron 2 at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Va., and is under the operational control of Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command. Defense Visual Information Center photo	Fred Weiss
80k	29 July 1994 A starboard bow view of the coastal patrol craft Tempest preparing for a refueling rendezvous with a U.S. warship off the coast of Haiti during the United Nations sponsored embargo. Defense Visual Information Center photo	Fred Weiss
210k	12 September 1998 Guayaquil, Ecuador Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton visits with the crew and embarked SEAL squad aboard the Coastal Patrol Craft Tempest that is currently training with the Ecuadorian Navy and Coast Guard on a variety of maritime skills. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Senior Chief Terry A. Cosgrove, USN	Bill Gonyo
221k	23 January 2002 Off Onslow Beach, NC Tempest is driving off USCG Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB) playing terrorists. Photo taken from USS Hue City (CG 66)	LT Steve Dundas, CHC, USNR
109k	9 February 2002 Off Onslow Beach, NC Tempest is driving off USCG RHIBs playing terrorists. Photo taken from USS Hue City (CG 66)	LT Steve Dundas, CHC, USNR
304k	15 June 2002 Bucksport, ME. Tempest passing Fort Knox, a civil war era granite fort that protects the entrance to Bucksport, ME. She is also passing under the US Rte 1, Waldo/Hancock bridge, a suspension bridge built in the early 1900's.	David L. Milan
323k	15 June 2002 Arriving in Bucksport. She has been updated since your listed photos. She now has a ramp installed on the stern for launching/retrieving the RHIBs.	David L. Milan