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USS Squall

History
USS Squall underway in the Arabian Sea on 10 September 2016
United States
Name	Squall
Namesake	Squall
Ordered	3 August 1990
Builder	Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana
Laid down	17 February 1993
Launched	28 August 1993
Acquired	9 May 1994
Commissioned	4 July 1994
Decommissioned	14 March 2022^[1]
Homeport	Naval Support Activity Bahrain
Motto	"Per Mare Per Terras" (By sea and land)
Status	Decommissioned
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General characteristics
Class and type	Cyclone-class patrol ship
Displacement	331 tons
Length	174 ft (53 m)
Beam	25 ft (7.6 m)
Draught	7.5 ft (2.3 m)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	4 officers, 24 ratings, 8 Special Forces
Armament	(USN) 2 Mk38 chain guns 2 Mk19 grenade launchers 2 .50 (12.7 mm) machine guns 6 Stinger missiles

USS Squall (PC-7) is the seventh Cyclone-class patrol ship. Squall was laid down 17 February 1993 by Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana and launched 28 August 1993. She was commissioned by the United States Navy 4 July 1994.

Operational history

In 2013, Squall shifted homeport to Naval Support Activity Bahrain.

On August 24, 2016, while operating in the northern end of the Persian Gulf, the Squall fired three .50 caliber machine gun warning shots at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards boat which had been harassing the Squall, the USS Tempest and a ship of the Kuwaiti Navy. During the encounter, the Iranian boat closed within 200 yards (180 m) of the Tempest and ignored earlier warnings to leave the area conveyed by radio and loud speaker and reinforced with the firing of flares. In accordance with standard maritime procedure, the warning shots were fired into the water. The Iranian boat then left the area.^[2]^[3]

Squall was decommissioned on 14 March 2022 at Naval Support Activity Bahrain.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "USS Squall". Naval Vessel Register.
^ Starr, Barbara; Gaouette, Nicole; Sciutto, Jim; Rizzo, Jennifer (August 25, 2016). "First on CNN: US fires warning shots at Iranian vessel after close encounter". CNN. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
^ Ryan, Missy; Gibbons-Neff, Thomas (August 25, 2016). "Navy patrol ship fires warning shots amid series of confrontations with Iranian vessels". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 30, 2016.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.