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Hercules (PHM 2)



Call sign:
November - Juliet - Quebec - Juliet
Pegasus Class Patrol Combatant Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down 12 September 1980 by Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash.; Launched, 13 April 1982; Commissioned 18 December 1982; Decommissioned, 30 July 1993; Struck from the Navy Register 30 July 1993; Sold for scrap 19 August 1996 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

Specifications: Displacement 178 t.(lt) , 248 t.(fl).; Length 133'; Beam 29'; Speed 51kts; Complement five officers, 19 enlisted; Armament one 76 mm gun mount, eight Harpoon missiles; Propulsion two 1,600bhp Mercedes-Benz marine diesels (Hullborne), and one 18,000shp General Electric LM2500 gas turbine (Foilborne), two water jets.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
Hercules 108k Defense Visual Information photo DN-SC-87-08273 Defense Visual Information Center
Hercules/Taurus 205k Hercules and Taurus (PHM 3) "flying" on their foils.
U.S. Navy photo		 R. L. Wilbur
Gemini 166k Racine (LST 1191), Gemini (PHM 6) and Hercules at Acapulco, Mexico
U.S. Navy photo from the October 1983 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
Hercules 127k Racine (LST 1191), Gemini (PHM 6) and Hercules at Key West, FL
U.S. Navy photo from the October 1983 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
Hercules 122k U.S. Navy photo by PH1 Harold J. Gerwien from the March 1984 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
Hercules 149k 15 June 1984
The patrol combatant missile hydrofoils Hercules, front, and USS Aries (PHM 5) lie tied up during the first phase of UNITAS XXV, the silver anniversary hemispheric naval exercise involving Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the
United States.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-90-01292 by JOCS Kirby Harrison		 Bill Gonyo
Hercules 155k 16 June 1984
Key West, FL
The patrol combatant missile hydrofoils Hercules, underway during the first phase of UNITAS XXV, the silver anniversary hemispheric naval exercise involving Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-90-01298 by JOCS Kirby Harrison		 Bill Gonyo
Hercules 239k 21 June 1987
Off Key West, FL
A port bow view of the patrol combatant-missile (hydrofoil) Hercules underway alongside the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during an underway replenishment.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-SC-87-08236 by CWO Wilkerson		 Bill Gonyo
There is no DANFS history available for Hercules (PHM-2)
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