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Aries (PHM-5)



Call sign:
November - Quebec - Alpha - Sierra
Pegasus PHM-1 Class Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down 7 January 1980 at Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash; Launched 5 November 1981; Commissioned USS Aries (PHM-5) 18 September 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 to Eliot James and B. J. Meinhardt.

Specifications: Displacement 178 t.(lt) , 248 t.(fl).; Length 133'; Beam 29'; Speed 51kts; Complement 24; 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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Aries 51k At launching International Hydrofoil Society
Aries 132k U.S. Navy photo from the February 1983 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Aires 207k 14 June 1984
NAS Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico
A ceremony takes place to mark the beginning of Operation UNITAS XXV, a four and one-half month long exercise involving participants from the United States and South America. Visible in the background is the patrol combatant missile
(hydrofoil) Aries.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-85-08181 by JOCS Kirby Harrison		 Bill Gonyo
Hercules 149k 15 June 1984
The patrol combatant missile hydrofoils USS Hercules (PHM 2), front, and Aries 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
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
International Hydrofoil Society
USS Aries PHM-5 Hydrofoil Memorial, Inc.
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