USS Squall

USS Squall (PC-7) underway in the Arabian Sea on 10 September 2016
History
United States
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
Homeport:	Naval Support Activity Bahrain
Status:	in active service
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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 men, 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 (coastal) 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.

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

On August 24, 2016, while operating in the northern end of the Perisan 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 Kuwati navy. During the encounter, the Iranian boat closed within 200 yards 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.