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Taurus (PHM-3)



Call sign:
November - Hotel - Charlie - November
Pegasus Class Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down, 30 January 1979 at Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash; Launched, 8 May 1981; Commissioned 10 October 1981; Decommissioned 30 July 1993 and struck from the Navy Register; Sold for scrap 19 August 1996 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

Specifications: Displacement 178 t.(lt) , 248 t.(fl).; Length 133'; Beam 29'; Speed 12kts. Hullborne, 48 kts. Foilborne; Complement 21; Armament, one 76 mm gun mount, eight Harpoon missiles: Propulsion two 1,600bhp Mercedes-Benz diesel engines (Hullborne) and one 18,000shp General Electric LM2500 gas
turbine (Foilborne),.

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Hercules/Taurus 205k Hercules (PHM 2) and Taurus "flying" on their foils.
U.S. Navy photo		 R. L. Wilbur
Taurus 64k . Robert Hurst
Taurus 118k . Wakipedia Website
Taurus 146k . .
Taurus 163k U.S. Navy photo from the February 1983 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
Taurus 147k U.S. Navy photo by PH1(AC) Scott M. Allen from the June 1990 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
There is no DANFS history available for Taurus (PHM-3)
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