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PHM-5 Aries

Call sign:
November - Quebec - Alpha - Sierra
Pegasus PHM-1 Class Patrol Combatant-Missile (Hydrofoil): Laid down 7 January 1980 at Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash; Launched 5 November 1981; Commissioned USS Aries (PHM-5) 18 September 1982; Decommissioned 30 July 1993; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 July 1993; Sold for scrapping, 19 August 1996 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Eliot James and B. J. Meinhardt. Aries opened for public tours 4 October 2002 on the Grand River in Brunswick, MO.
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 turbines, two shafts.
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U.S. Navy photo from the February 1983 edition of All Hands magazine |
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
International Hydrofoil Society
USS Aries PHM-5 Hydrofoil Memorial, Inc.
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