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PC-8 Zephyr


Right patch courtesy of Mike Smolinski



Call sign:
November - Zulu - Echo - Papa


Zephyr served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

Cyclone Class Coastal Patrol Ship: Laid down, 6 March 1993 at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Lockport, LA.; Launched, 3 December 1993; Commissioned USS Zephyr (PC-8), 15 October 1994; Transferred to the Coast Guard
in 2002.

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 Det. or USCG Det.; Armament two Mk.38 25mm; two .50 cal. machine guns, six Stinger missiles, two MK19 automatic grenade launcher, one Mk 52 Mod 0 chaff launcher; Propulsion four Paxman diesel engines, four shafts, 3,350 shp.


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Zephyr 85k 10 February 1996, NAS North Island CA.
Change of Command Ceremony
E. J. Comeau PC-553/1228
Zephyr 43k 8 July 2003. South shore of Griffin Bay, San Juan Island, Northern
Puget Sound.
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Zephyr 64k 8 July 2003. South shore of Griffin Bay, San Juan Island, Northern
Puget Sound.
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There is no DANFS history available for Zephyr (PC-8) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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