{"id":3417,"date":"2022-02-01T15:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2023-08-20T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T22:52:11","slug":"uss-pegasus-phm-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/uss-pegasus-phm-1\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Pegasus (PHM-1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found another Navy fast attack boat to make that I was thinking of making for a long time. USS Pegasus (PHM-1)<\/p>\n

The USS Pegasus PHM-1 was the lead ship of her class of hydrofoils operated by the United States Navy. Pegasus-class vessels were designed for high speed and mobility and carried a powerful armament for their size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/td>\nPegasus<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Namesake<\/td>\nPegasus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Awarded<\/td>\n1 February 1973<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Builder<\/td>\nBoeing Marine Systems,\u00a0Renton, Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laid down<\/td>\n10 May 1973<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launched<\/td>\n9 November 1974<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Commissioned<\/td>\n9 July 1977<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Decommissioned<\/td>\n30 July 1993<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stricken<\/td>\n30 July 1993<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Homeport<\/td>\nKey West, Florida<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fate<\/td>\nSold for scrapping, 19 August 1996<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
General characteristics\u00a0[1]<\/sup><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Class and type<\/td>\nPegasus<\/i>-class\u00a0hydrofoil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Displacement<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • 178\u00a0long tons\u00a0(181\u00a0t) light<\/li>\n
  • 248 long tons (252\u00a0t) full<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Length<\/td>\n131.2\u00a0ft (40.0\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beam<\/td>\n28.2\u00a0ft (8.6\u00a0m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Draft<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • 23.2 feet (7.1 m) hull borne<\/li>\n
  • 8.8 ft (2.7 m) foil borne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Installed power<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • 2 \u00d7\u00a0Mercedes-Benz\u00a0marine diesels (hullborne), 1,600\u00a0bhp (1,193\u00a0kW)<\/li>\n
  • 1 \u00d7 General Electric LM2500 gas turbine (foil borne), 18,000 ship (13,423 kW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Propulsion<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • 2 \u00d7 Water jets (hull borne)<\/li>\n
  • 1 \u00d7 Water jet (foil borne)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Speed<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • 12 knots (22 km\/h; 14 mph) hull borne<\/li>\n
  • 48 knots (89 km\/h; 55 mph) foil borne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Range<\/td>\n750\u20131,200\u00a0nmi (1,390\u20132,220\u00a0km)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Complement<\/td>\n4 officers, 17 enlisted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sensors and
\nprocessing systems<\/td>\n		\n
    \n
  • LN-66 navigation radar<\/li>\n
  • Mk 94 Mod 1 fire-control system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Armament<\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • 1 \u00d7\u00a076\u00a0mm (3\u00a0in)\/62 Mk.75 OTO-Melara gun<\/li>\n
  • 2 \u00d7 quad\u00a0RGM-84 Harpoon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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    Found another Navy fast attack boat to make that I was thinking of making for a long time. USS Pegasus (PHM-1) The USS Pegasus PHM-1 was the lead ship of her class of hydrofoils operated by the United States Navy. Pegasus-class vessels were designed for high speed and mobility and carried a powerful armament for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[89,191,188,183,189,184,190,46,180,97,187,186,65,182,181,185],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work-in-progress","tag-fast-attack-craft","tag-fire-control-system","tag-harpoon","tag-hydrofoil","tag-ln-66-navigation-radar","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-mk-94-mod","tag-navy","tag-phm-1","tag-radar","tag-rgm-84","tag-rgm-84-harpoon","tag-usa","tag-uss","tag-uss-pegasus","tag-water-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkabs.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}