Monsoon (PC-4)}}>{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=US Navy 100526-N-5244H-002 The Cyclone-class coastal patrol ships USS Tempest (PC 2), left, and USS Monsoon (PC 4) make their way down the Hudson River en route to Fleet Week New York 2010.jpg | Ship caption=USS Monsoon (PC-4) sailing up the Hudson River in May 2010.
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 2004}} {{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} | Ship name=*USS Monsoon (PC-4) | Ship namesake=Monsoon | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered=3 August 1990 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=15 February 1992 | Ship launched=10 October 1992 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired=20 September 1993 | Ship commissioned=22 January 1994 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport=Manama, Bahrain | Ship identification= | Ship motto=Strike with fury. | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= | Ship status={{ship in active service}} | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Cyclone|patrol ship}} | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=331 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 174|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 25|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 7.5|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=4 Paxman Vallenta 1600 MPDE | 35|kn}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats=7m RHIB | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=4 officers, 24 men, 8 Special Forces | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*(USN) 2 M242 Bushmaster MK38 Mod 2 chain guns- 2 Mk19 grenade launchers
- 2 .50 (12.7 mm) machine guns
- 8 AGM-176 Griffins
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During her time as a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, Monsoon, along with {{USCGC|Boutwell|WHEC-719|6}} helped with the arrest of Mexican drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano Félix while he was deep-sea fishing off the Baja Peninsula. The crew of Monsoon took him into custody and his U.S. registered fishing boat, Dock Holiday, was towed back to San Diego from international waters by an unknown Coast Guard 87 foot patrol boat.[2]
{{Clear}}1. ^{{cite web|author=NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Coastal Photo Archive |url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/0304.htm |title=USS Monsoon (PC-4), ex-USCGC Monsoon (WPC 4)|publisher=NavSource.org|accessdate=2014-04-25}}
2. ^Alfano, Sean; "Feds Land A Big Fish", CBS News