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Hercules (PHM 2)



Call sign:
November - Juliet - Quebec - Juliet
Pegasus Class Patrol Combatant Missile (Hydrofoil):

  • Laid down 12 September 1980 by Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Washington
  • Launched 13 April 1982
  • Commissioned 18 December 1982
  • Decommissioned 30 July 1993 and struck from the Navy Register
  • Sold for scrap 19 August 1996 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 178 t.(lt), 248 t.(fl)
  • Length 133'
  • Beam 29'
  • Speed 51 kts.
  • Complement 24
  • Armament: One 76mm gun mount and eight Harpoon missiles
  • Propulsion: Two 1,600bhp Mercedes-Benz marine diesels (Hullborne), and one 18,000shp General Electric LM2500 gas turbine (Foilborne), two water jets.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Hercules 108k Defense Visual Information photo DN-SC-87-08273 Defense Visual Information Center
    Hercules/Taurus 205k Hercules and Taurus (PHM 3) "flying" on their foils.
    U.S. Navy photo    		 R. L. Wilbur
    Gemini 166k Racine (LST 1191), Gemini (PHM 6) and Hercules at Acapulco, Mexico
    U.S. Navy photo from the October 1983 edition of All Hands magazine.    		 Joe Radigan
    Hercules 127k Racine (LST 1191), Gemini (PHM 6) and Hercules at Key West, FL
    U.S. Navy photo from the October 1983 edition of All Hands magazine.
    Hercules 122k U.S. Navy photo by PH1 Harold J. Gerwien from the March 1984 edition of All Hands magazine.
    Hercules 149k 15 June 1984
    The patrol combatant missile hydrofoils Hercules, front, and USS Aries (PHM 5) lie tied up during the first phase of UNITAS XXV, the silver anniversary hemispheric naval exercise involving Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the
    United States.
    Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-90-01292 by JOCS Kirby Harrison    		 Bill Gonyo
    Hercules 155k 16 June 1984
    Key West, FL
    The patrol combatant missile hydrofoils Hercules, underway during the first phase of UNITAS XXV, the silver anniversary hemispheric naval exercise involving Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.
    Defense Visual Information photo DN-ST-90-01298 by JOCS Kirby Harrison
    Hercules 239k 21 June 1987
    Off Key West, FL
    A port bow view of the patrol combatant-missile (hydrofoil) Hercules underway alongside the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during an underway replenishment.
    Defense Visual Information photo DN-SC-87-08236 by CWO Wilkerson
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Thomas C. Corcoran, USN15 January 1983 - 12 January 1985
    02LCDR Jeffery Alexander Hutchison, USN12 January 1985 - 31 January 1987
    03LCDR Larry Richard Simmons, USN31 January 1987 - 15 April 1989
    04LCDR Robert Saunders Warner, USN15 April 1989 - 21 June 1991
    05LCDR John William Peterson, USN21 June 1991 - 10 March 1993
    06LCDR Patrick Eugene Allen, USN10 March 1993 - 30 July 1993
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    There is no DANFS history available for Hercules (PHM-2)
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