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PHM-4 Aquila

Call sign:
November - Victor - Mike - Zulu
Pegasus PHM-1 Class Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down, 10 July 1979 at Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash; Launched, 16 September 1981; Commissioned USS Aquila (PHM-4), 26 June 1982; Decommissioned, 30 July 1993; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 July 1993; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 19 August 1996 by 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, geared turbine.
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Moored at NAS Key West, FL, 11 August 1982 after her 5,000 mile voyage from Puget Sound, WA. Astern is Taurus (PHM 3). U.S. Navy photo NH 96680. |
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U.S. Navy photo from the February 1983 edition of All Hands magazine |
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