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Pegasus (PHM-1)



Call sign:
November - Whiskey - Golf - Tango
Pegasus Class Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down, 10 May 1973 at Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash.; Launched, 9 November 1974; Commissioned 9 July 1977; Decommissioned, 30 July 1993; Struck from the Navy Register 30 July 1993; Sold for scrap 19 August 1996 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

Specifications: Displacement 178 t.(lt) , 248 t.(fl).; Length 131.2'; Beam 28.2'; Draft 6.2' (hullborne, foils retracted), 23.2' (hullborne, foils extended), 8.8' Foilborne (nominal); Speed 11 kts. (hullborne), 40+ kts. (foilborne); Complement 21; Armament one Melera Mk 75, 76mm gun mount and eight Harpoon missiles; Propulsion Foilborne one 18,000shp General Electric LM-2500 gas turbine engine with waterjet propulsor, Hullborne two 1,600bhp Mercedes-Benz diesel engines with water jets.

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Pegasus 169k U.S. Navy photo from the NAVSEA Journal Bob Bush
Pegasus 69k U.S. Navy photo International Hydrofoil Society web site
Pegasus 83k Test run off San Diego,CA Robert Hurst
Pegasus 106k Harpoon missile launch Robert Hurst
Pegasus 75k c. 1975
U.S. Navy photoVisiting San Francisco, CA		 Robert Hurst
Pegasus 136k U.S. Navy photo from the March 1975 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Pegasus 123k U.S. Navy photo from the March 1975 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Pegasus 78k U.S. Navy photo from the September 1975 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Pegasus 72k Original U.S. Navy photo from the July 1976 edition of All Hands magazine
Replacement photo from NAVSEA Journal		 Original photo from Joe Radigan
Replacement photo from Bob Bush
Pegasus 162k c. Summer 1978
Visiting San Francisco, CA
Alcatraz Island is in the background		 Robert M. Cieri
Pegasus 177k c. Summer 1978
Visiting San Francisco, CA		 Robert M. Cieri
There is no DANFS history available for Pegasus (PHM-1)
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