USS Tornado

History
United States
Ordered: 14 August 1997
Builder: Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Laid down: 25 August 1998
Launched: 7 June 1999
Acquired: 13 March 2000
Commissioned: 24 June 2000
Recommissioned: 6 December 2011(USCG)
Decommissioned: 1 October 2004
Homeport: Jacksonville, Florida
Motto: Focused Precision
Status: in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Cyclone-class patrol ship
Displacement: 331 tons
Length: 179 ft (55 m)
Beam: 25 ft (7.6 m)
Draught: 7.5 ft (2.3 m)
Installed power: 2 CAT Marine SSDG
Propulsion: 4 Paxman Valenta Diesel Engines
Speed: 31 knots
Boats & landing
craft carried:
USCG Over the Horizon
Crew: 3 officers, 2 chiefs, 25 enlisted
Armament:

USS Tornado (PC-14) is the fourteenth and last Cyclone class patrol (coastal) ship, notable for being the only ship in the class designed with shaping features for signature management. She was laid down by Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana 25 August 1998 and launched 7 June 1999. She was commissioned by the United States Navy 24 June 2000, decommissioned 1 October 2004 and transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Tornado (WPC-14).

Tornado was transferred back to the Navy on 30 September 2011, and is once again designated PC-14.[1][2]

Tornado in the Gulf of Mexico, December 2004

References

  1. "Patrol Coastal Ships – PC". U.S. Navy. 10 November 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  2. "USS Tornado (PC 14)". U.S. Navy. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

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