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USCGC Zephyr (WPC 8)


Right patch courtesy of Mike Smolinski

USS Zephyr (PC-8)



Call sign:
November - Zulu - Echo - Papa

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

Cyclone Class Coastal Patrol Ship: Laid down, 6 March 1993 at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Lockport, LA.; Launched, 3 December 1993; Commissioned USS Zephyr (PC-8), 15 October 1994; Decommissioned 1 October 2004 at San Diego, CA; Transferred to the Coast Guard 8 October 2004 as USCGC Zephyr (WPC-8).

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 Det. or USCG Det.; Armament two Mk.38 25mm; two .50 cal. machine guns, six Stinger missiles, two MK19 automatic grenade launcher, one Mk 52 Mod 0 chaff launcher; Propulsion four Paxman diesel engines, four shafts, 3,350 shp.

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USS Zephyr (PC 8)
Zephyr 85k 10 February 1996, NAS North Island CA.
Change of Command Ceremony		 E. J. Comeau PC-553/1228
Hurricane 121k U.S. Navy patrol craft Hurricane (PC 3) (foreground), Zephyr (left) and Squall (PC 7) from Special Boat Squadron 1, Special Boat Unit 12, Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, Ca, cruise in formation off the coast of San Diego.
U.S. Navy photo 970513-N-3149V-007		 Bill Gonyo
Hurricane 151k 13 May 1997
U.S. Navy Patrol Craft (front to back) Hurricane (PC 3), USS Squall (PC 7), Zephyr and USS Monsoon (PC 4) of Special Boat Squadron One, Special Boat Unit 12, Naval Base San Diego, cruise in formation off the coast of
San Diego.
U.S. Navy photo 970513-N-3149V-008 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jeffrey S. Viano		 Bill Gonyo
Zephyr 43k 8 July 2003. South shore of Griffin Bay, San Juan Island, Northern
Puget Sound.		 .
Zephyr 64k 8 July 2003. South shore of Griffin Bay, San Juan Island, Northern
Puget Sound.		 .
USCGC Zephyr (WPC 8)
Zephyr 133k 28 January 2007
Transitting San Francisco Bay outbound8, 2007.		 CAPT Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG, Ret.
There is no DANFS history available for Zephyr (PC-8)
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