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ETHIOPIAN NAVY (ETHIOPIA)

COASTAL FORCES

PC11 large patrol craft (1958-1962)

PC11 1963

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
(ex-WVP95304) PC11   Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, USA     1958 sunk 4.1977
(ex-WVP95310) PC12   Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, USA     1958 discarded 1984
(ex-PGM53) PC13   Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, USA     1961 discarded 1984
(ex-PGM54) PC14   Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, USA     1961 discarded 1984
(ex-PGM18) PC15   Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, USA     1962 discarded 1986

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

146

Length, m

29.0

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Cummings diesels

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

1500(15)

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 1 - 12.7/90, 1 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL

Electronic equipment radar

Complement

20

 

Project history: US 'Cape' 95ft class boats, also built for other countries as PGM53 class.

 

Modernizations: None.

 

Naval service: PC11 was sunk by Ethiopian aircraft in April 1977 while her crew was defecting to Eritrean People's Liberation Front.

PC12 1970

 

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