The Cyclone -class patrol ships are a class of coastal patrol boats, formerly in service with the United States Navy. Most of these ships, named for weather phenomenae, were launched between 1992 and 1994. The primary mission of these ships is coastal patrol and interdiction surveillance, ...
USS Peoria (PF-67) in June 1945 Class overview Builders American Ship Building Company... 1 Tacoma-class patrol frigates, US Navy 5.2 Colony-class frigates, Royal Navy 6 See also 7...
Cost US$122 million Built 1975–2004 In commission 1977–present Planned 71 Completed 71... anti-ship missiles . Removed from the U.S. Navy ships starting in 2003 on retirement of the SM...
Naming [edit] Ship classes are typically named in one of two ways; echoing the name of the... lead ship announcement from US Navy Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine USS...
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The 600-ship Navy was a strategic plan of the United States Navy during the 1980s to rebuild its fleet after cutbacks that followed the end of the Vietnam War. [1] The plan, which...
five classes of ships being built for the U.S. Navy were running years behind schedule. The first ship in the new class of Frigate warships, being built at Fincantieri SpA's Marinette...
USNS Bethesda (EMS 1) will be the first ship in the new Expeditionary Medical Ship (EMS(X)) class · EMS(X) will now be referred to as the Bethesda Class Expeditionary Medical Ship. The naming is to honor and immortalize the history and community of healthcare professionals that make up Naval Support Activity Bethesda, who have saved and rehabilitated the lives of service members, veterans, civilians, their families, and even Presidents of the United States. Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-1920) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
The US Navy’s LCS programme promised a two-variant class of warship intended to function as both a light frigate and littoral patrol ship.
It was revealed during Tuesday’s decommissioning ceremony of USS Monsoon (PC 4) and USS Chinook (PC 9) that the ships will be transferred to the Philippine Navy. The Cyclone-class Patrol Coastal Ships were the last two in the U.S. Navy, with both ships serving for almost three decades in littoral patrol operations. Now, the Patrol Coastal Ships will find a new, but familiar, operator: the Philippine Navy. In 2004, the Philippine Navy received and commissioned BRP General Mariano Alvarez (PS-38), formerly known as the namesake of the class USS ...