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CAMBODIAN NAVY (CAMBODIA)

COASTAL FORCES

E311 large patrol craft (1943-1944/1956)

E311 1970

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
កម្ពុជា [Cambodia] (ex-Flamberge, ex-PC1086) E311   Geo Lawley, Neponset, USA 2.1943 24.4.1943 1.1944 // 2.1956 escaped to Thailand 16.5.1975
(ex-L`Inconstant, ex-PC1171) E312   Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA 3.1943 15.5.1943 9.1943 // 1956 escaped to Philippines 21.5.1975 (Negros Oriental)

 

Displacement standard, t

325

Displacement full, t

430

Length, m

51.8 wl 52.9 oa

Breadth, m

7.06

Draught, m

2.36 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

2880

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil 49
Endurance, nm(kts) 3000 (12) - 4800 (12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment

SO radar, QHA sonar

Complement 59 - 65

Project history: US-built 173ft PC-type patrols, transferred to France in 1951 for use in Indo-China and later to Cambodia.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: E311 fled to Thailand 16.5.1975 and has been scrapped. E312 fled to the Philippines 21.5.1975 and later was commissioned by Philippine Navy as Negros Oriental.

© Ivan Gogin, 2016