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DOMINICAN NAVY (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

COASTAL FORCES

LR101 motor patrol launches (1945)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
LR101, 1957- Capitán Alsina 1957- GC105   USA   1944 1945 stricken 1996
LR102     USA   1944 1945 lost 1956
LR103, 1957- Capitán Maduro 1957- GC106   USA   1944 1945 discarded 1968

 

Displacement standard, t

100

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

28.0 pp 31.9 oa

Breadth, m

5.87

Draught, m

1.68

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Complement

20

Project history: Large patrol craft, wooden hull. Former USN SAR craft.

Modernizations: 1977, Capitan Alsina: petrol engines were replaced by 2 General Motors diesels (1000hp, 17kts).

Naval service: LR102 was lost in 1956. Survivors in 1957 were transferred to coast guard.

LR102 1948

Capitan Alsina 1970s

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