The second USS Chinook (PC-9) is the ninth Cyclone-class patrol ship of the United States Navy.
Contract awarded 19 July 1991 to Bollinger Shipyards, her keel was laid 16 June 1993, and she was launched 26 February 1994.
She was delivered on 7 October 1994 and commissioned on 28 January 1995.
[1] On 10 January 2023, Chinook, along with sister patrol ship USS Monsoon (PC-4) and guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG-68), stopped and boarded a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman that was smuggling over 2000 AK-47 assault rifles.
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