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Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

USS Thunderbolt (PC-12)
ex-USCGC Thunderbolt (WPC 12)
ex-USS Thunderbolt (PC 12)

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

Cyclone Class Coastal Patrol Ship: Laid down, 9 June 1994 at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Lockport, LA.; Launched, 2 December 1994; Commissioned USS Thunderbolt (PC-12), 7 October 1995 at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA; Transferred to the Coast Guard 5 March 1998 and commissioned USCGC Thunderbolt (WPC 12) under dual-commission status, for operational test and evaluation program; Transferred back to Navy custody, 17 July 1998.

Specifications: Displacement 328.5 t(lt), 331 t.(fl); Length 170'; Beam 25'; Draft less than 8'; Speed 35k; Complement 28 and eight Special Warfare Det. or USCG Det.; Armament two Mk 38 25mm mounts; two .50 cal. machine guns, six Stinger missiles, two Mk 19 automatic grenade launchers, one Mk 52 Mod 0 chaff launcher; Propulsion four 3,350bhp Paxman 16CM Model 16RP200M diesel engines, Reintjes Model WVS 2232 (2.025:1) reduction gear, four shafts.


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Size Image Description Source
Thunderbolt 42k c. 1998
Seen here in both Coast Guard and Navy markings.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by David Schuffholz
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Thunderbolt 110k 17 November 2007
Hampton Roads, outbound from Norfolk, VA
Gil Bohannon
Thunderbolt 238k 30 November 2007
Baltimore, MD
Moored in the Inner Harbor for the Army-Navy game
Wendell Royce McLaughlin, Jr.
Thunderbolt 159k 30 November 2007
Baltimore, MD
Moored in the Inner Harbor for the Army-Navy game
Wendell Royce McLaughlin, Jr.
Thunderbolt 164k 1 December 2007
Inner harbor Baltimore, MD
Photo taken through the number one periscope aboard the museum submarine Torsk SS-423
Gil Bohannon

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