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PC-6 Sirocco


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Call sign: November - Sierra - India - Romeo



Cyclone Class Coastal Patrol Ship: Laid down, 20 June 1992 at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Lockport, LA; Launched, 29 May 1993; Commissioned USS Sirocco (PC-6), 11 June 1994; Active, in commission, home ported at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Norfolk, VA.

Specifications: Displacement 328.5 t(lt), 331 t.(fl); Length 170'; Beam 25'; Draft less than 8'; Speed 35k; Complement four Officers, 24 Enlisted, eight Special Warfare or USCG det; Armament two MK38 25mm; two .50 cal. machine guns, six Stinger missiles, two MK19 automatic grenade launcher, one MK52 Mod 0 chaff launcher; Propulsion four Paxman diesel engines, four shafts, 3,350 shaft horsepower.


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Sirocco 56k US Navy photo -
Sirocco 69k . Mike Connell

There is no DANFS history available for Sirocco (PC-6) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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