Ordered 3 August 1990 Commissioned 21 August 1993 Decommissioned 30 September 2005 Construction started 30 September 1991 Length 53 m Displacement 300,300 kg | Laid down 30 September 1991 Recommissioned 23 August 2008 Reclassified 1 October 2005 Launched 4 April 1992 Weight 336.3 tons | |
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Builder Bollinger Shipyards, L.L.C. | ||
USS Tempest (PC-2) is the second Cyclone-class patrol (coastal) ship, decommissioned 30 September 2005 and transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Tempest (WPC-2). She was placed in 'Commission Special' status until December 2005, when she was formally commissioned as a Coast Guard cutter. She was returned to the US Navy on 22 August 2008.
In 2013, Tempest shifted homeport to Naval Support Activity Bahrain. While deployed to the Persian Gulf on 24 August 2016, USS Squall fired three warning shots from a .50 caliber machine gun at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy fast attack craft that approached within 200 yards of Tempest. The fast attack craft had ignored radio calls to veer off as well as warning flares.
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