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USCGS Flagstaff (WPBH 1)

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

ex-USS Flagstaff (PGH 1)

Flagstaff served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.
Flagstaff Class Patrol Gunboat (Hydrofoil): Laid down 1 June 1966 by the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Stuart, FL 1 June 1966; Launched, 15 July 1966; Commissioned USS Flagstaff (PGH-1), 14 September 1968; Decommissioned, 1 September 1970; Loaned to the Coast Guard 8 November 1974 and commissioned USCGS Flagstaff (WPBH 1) at San Diego, CA; Returned to U.S. Navy 18 February 1975; Reacquired by the Coast Guard 29 September 1976; Placed in commissioned (Special), 2 March 1977; Placed in commission (Active) 17 July 1977; Decommissioned 30 September 1978 and returned to U.S. Navy; Scrapped in 1978.

Specifications: Displacement 67 t.; Length 82' (overall); Beam 21' 6"; Draft 4' 4" (foils retracted), 18' (foils extended); Speed 45+ kts. (foil-borne), eight kts. (hull-borne); Complement 12; Armament one 40mm gun mount, four .50 cal. machine guns and one 81mm mortar (Small arms only while in Coast Guard); Propulsion one Rolls Royce Tyne gas turbine with super cavitating propeller (foil-borne) and two General Motors diesel engines with two water jet
pumps (hull-borne).

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USS Flagstaff (PGH 1)
Flagstaff 43k U.S. Navy photo International Hydrofoil Society web site
Flagstaff 52k U.S. Navy photo International Hydrofoil Society web site
Flagstaff 79k c. 1969
Being transported to Vietnam on board Gunston Hall (LSD 5)		 Cliff Boxer
Flagstaff 202k c. February 1970
Refueling from USS Platte (AO 24)		 Richard Miller BMCS, USNR, Ret.
USCGC Flagstaff (WPBH 1)
Flagstaff 87k Undergoing Coast Guard evaluations.
U.S. Coast Guard photo		 U.S. Coast Guard
Washington, DC
There is no DANFS history available for Flagstaff (PGH-1)
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