Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.

NavSource Online:
Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil)
Photo Archive

Gemini (PHM 6)



Call sign:
November - Papa - Golf - Uniform
Pegasus Class Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down, 13 May 1980 by Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash; Launched, 17 February 1982; Commissioned 13 November 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 24; Armament one 76mm gun mount, eight AGM-84 Harpoon missiles: Propulsion two 1,600bhp Mercedes-Benz marine diesels (Hullborne), and one 18,000shp General Electric LM2500 gas turbine (Foilborne), two water jets.

Click on thumbnail
for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
Gemini 97k Off Key West, FL Steve Miller
Gemini 86k Off Key West, FL Steve Miller
Gemini 93k c. 1982
Delivery day at Naval Shipyard Bremerton, WA		 Steve Miller
Gemini 126k U.S. Navy photo from the October 1983 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
Gemini 166k Racine (LST 1191), Gemini and Hercules (PHM 2) at Acapulco, Mexico
U.S. Navy photo from the October 1983 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
Hercules 127k Racine (LST 1191), Gemini and Hercules (PHM 2) at Key West, FL
U.S. Navy photo from the October 1983 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
Gemini 93k U.S. Navy photo by PH1 Harold J. Gerwien, from the March 1984 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
Gemini 170k 15 May 1984
A port bow view of the patrol combatant missile hydrofoil Gemini moored at the Washington Navy Yard during a port visit. The destroyer Barry (DD 933), background, is a permanent memorial vessel.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-85-11654 by Don S. Montgomery		 Robert M. Cieri
Gemini 172k 1 August 1985
Underway during UNITAS 85.
Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-85-11076		 Bill Gonyo
There is no DANFS history available for Gemini (PHM-6)
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
Back To The Main Photo Index Back to the Patrol Craft/Gunboat/Submarine Chaser Index Back to the Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil) - (PHM) Photo Index
Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster
This page created by Gary P. Priolo and maintained by Joe Radigan
© 2005 Joseph M. Radigan © 1996 - 2005 NavSource Naval History. All Rights Reserved.