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PC-1 Cyclone



Call sign:
November - Yankee - Oscar - Echo


Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

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


Cyclone served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.

Cyclone Class Coastal Patrol Ship: Laid down, 22 June 1991 at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Lockport, LA.; Launched, 1 February 1992; Commissioned USS Cyclone (PC-1), 7 August 1993; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Registry, 28 February 2000; Transferred to the U. S. Coast Guard, 29 February 2000 as USCGC Cyclone (WPC 1); Transferred to the Philippines as BRP Mariano Alvarez (PS 38), 8 March 2004. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 328.5 t(lt), 331 t.(fl); Length 170' (Lenghtened by 9 feet to incorporate a stern boat launch and recovery ramp); 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 Mk 19 automatic grenade launcher, one Mk 52 Mod 0 chaff launcher; Propulsion four 3,350shp Paxman diesel engines, four shafts.


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Cyclone 162k - Bollinger
via E. J. Comeau (PC553/1228)
Cyclone 78k US Navy photo International Hydofoil Society web site
Cyclone 36k . Gunter Krebs
Cyclone 43k 1 August 1993
Chesapeak Bay
A starboard quarter view of the coastal patrol ship Cyclone.
Defense Visual Iinformation Center photo.
Fred Weiss
Cyclone 56k 7 August 1993
Annapolis, Maryland
A port bow view of the coastal patrol boat Cyclone as the ship prepares to moor pier side at the U.S. Naval Academy prior to commissioning.
Defense Visual Information Center photo.
Fred Weiss
Cyclone 49k 1 July 1994
A port bow view of the coastal patrol ship Cyclone homeported at Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, VA, operates off the coast of Haiti.
Defense Visual Information Center photo.
Fred Weiss
Cyclone 115k c. December 2003
New Orleans, LA. Cyclone being loaded aboard a heavy lift ship for transfer to the Philippines.
U.S. Navy photo from the March 2004 edition of Naval Institute Proceedings
Joe Radigan
Cyclone 135k The BRP General Mariano Alvarez (PS 38), is docked at Manila, Philippines during a turnover ceremony. The United States donated the Cyclone Class patrol ship to the Philippine Navy, including a two-year supply of parts, to enhance the Philippine Navy's coastal and counter-terrorism capabilities.
Official Department of Defense photo.
Joe Radigan

There is no DANFS history available for Cyclone (PC-1)
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