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CAMBODIAN NAVY (CAMBODIA)

COASTAL FORCES

P111 support gunboats (1943-1944/1957)

P112 1970

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
(ex-L9039, ex-LSIL875, ex-LCI(L)875) P111   Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA     10.1944 // 1957 escaped to Philippines 17.4.1975 (Marinduque)
(ex-Medecin Capitaine le Gall, ex-LSIL476, ex-LCI(L)476) P112   New Jersey SB, Barber, USA     10.1943 // 1957 escaped to Philippines 17.4.1975

 

Displacement standard, t

230

Displacement full, t

P111: 387

P112: 350

Length, m

46.6 wl 48.9 oa

Breadth, m

7.21

Draught, m

P111: 1.74

P112: 1.83

No of shafts

2

Machinery

8 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

2320

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

P111: diesel oil 100

P112: diesel oil 120

Endurance, nm(kts)

8000(12)

Armament

P111: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

P112: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

Electronic equipment

SO radar
Complement

P111: 58

P112: 40

Project history: Former USN LCI(L) type large infantry landing craft, transferred to France in 1951, rearmed as support gunboats and transferred to Cambodia in 1957.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Both escaped to the Philippines 17.4.1975, P111 was later incorporated in the Philippine Navy as Marinduque.

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