USS Typhoon (PC 5)

Date	Where	Events
November 7, 2003	southeast of Cape Henry	After assisting a Coast Guard boarding team during a homeland security boarding of a liquid gas tanker, sailors from TYPHOON returned to their ship in the RHIB at approx. 4 a.m. local time. While the RHIB was alongside the ship to be recovered, swells first knocked Engineman 2nd Class Douglas Bolles, 43, into the water, followed by the RHIB capsizing and a second Sailor falling into the water. The second Sailor was recovered by TYPHOON and had no injuries while Bolles remained missing. An exhaustive search involving numerous ships and assets from the US Navy and US Coast Guard was called off November 10 at 8.45 a.m. Bolles was subsequently declared dead.

After assisting a Coast Guard boarding team during a homeland security boarding of a liquid gas tanker, sailors from TYPHOON returned to their ship in the RHIB at approx. 4 a.m. local time. While the RHIB was alongside the ship to be recovered, swells first knocked Engineman 2nd Class Douglas Bolles, 43, into the water, followed by the RHIB capsizing and a second Sailor falling into the water. The second Sailor was recovered by TYPHOON and had no injuries while Bolles remained missing.

An exhaustive search involving numerous ships and assets from the US Navy and US Coast Guard was called off November 10 at 8.45 a.m. Bolles was subsequently declared dead.

General Characteristics:	Awarded: August 3, 1990
	Keel laid: May 15, 1992
	Launched: March 3, 1993
	Commissioned: February 12, 1994
	Builder: Bollinger Machine Shop & Shipyard, Lockport, Louisiana
	Propulsion system:4 Paxman diesels
	Propellers: four
	Length: 170 feet (51.8 meters)
	Beam: 25 feet (7.6 meters)
	Draft: 7.5 feet (2.3 meters)
	Displacement: approx. 331 tons
	Speed: 35 knots
	Aircraft: none
	Armament: 2 25mm Mk-38 machine guns; 2 .50 cal machine guns; 2 Mk-19 automatic grenade launchers; 6 stinger missiles
	Homeport: Little Creek, Va.
	Crew: 4 officers, 24 enlisted and 8 Special Forces personnel