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PC-2 Tempest



Call sign: November - Tango - Alpha - Charlie

Cyclone Class Coastal Patrol Ship: Laid down, 30 September 1991 at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Lockport, LA; Launched, 4 April 1992; Commissioned USS Tempest (PC-2), 28 August 1993; Active, in commission, home ported at Little Creek, 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 MK.38 25mm; two .50 cal. machine guns, six Stinger missiles, two MK19 automatic grenade launcher, one MK52 Mod 0 chaff launcher; Propulsion four 3,350shp Paxman diesel engines, four shafts.
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Tempest 45k - Photo by EN1(SW) Tommy Beard, USN
Submitted by Jack Spratt, LT, USNR
Tempest 40k - Photo by EN1(SW) Tommy Beard, USN
Submitted by Jack Spratt, LT, USNR
Tempest 128k - .
Tempest 60k 28 Oct 1993.
A starboard bow view of the coastal patrol ship Tempest moored next to the museum ship Barry (DD-933) at the Washington Navy Yard. Tempest is assigned to Special Boat Squadron 2 at Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va., and is under the operational control of Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command.
Defense Visual Information Center photo
Fred Weiss
Tempest 80k 29 July 1994. Caribbean.
A starboard bow view of the coastal patrol craft Tempest preparing for a refueling rendezvous with a U.S. warship off the coast of Haiti during the United Nations sponsored embargo.
Defense Visual Information Center photo
Fred Weiss
Tempest 221k Off Onslow Beach, NC - 23 January 2002. Tempest is driving off USCG Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB) playing terrorists. Photo taken from USS Hue City (CG 66) LT Steve Dundas, CHC, USNR
Tempest 109k Off Onslow Beach, NC - 9 February 2002. Tempest is driving off USCG RHIBs playing terrorists. Photo taken from USS Hue City (CG 66) LT Steve Dundas, CHC, USNR
Tempest 304k Bucksport, ME. 15 June 2002
Tempest passing Fort Knox, a civil war era granite fort that protects the entrance to Bucksport, ME. She is also passing under the US Rte 1, Waldo/Hancock bridge, a suspension bridge built in the early 1900's.
David L. Milan
Tempest 323k Arriving in Bucksport. She has been updated since your listed photos. She now has a ramp installed on the stern for launching/retrieving the RHIBs. David L. Milan

There is no DANFS history available for Tempest (PC-2)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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