USS Typhoon (PC-5) is the fifth United States Navy Cyclone class patrol (coastal) ship. Typhoon was laid down 15 May 1992 at Bollinger Shipyards, in Lockport, Louisiana and launched 3 March 1993. She was commissioned 12 February 1994 in Tampa, Florida. As of 2008, Typhoon operates in the Persian Gulf, stationed in Manama, Bahrain since 2004 and is manned by one of 13 rotating 30-person US Navy crews and a US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) that performs ship boardings.