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PHILIPPINE NAVY (PHILIPPINES)

COASTAL FORCES

CAMARINES SUR large patrol craft (1954-1956)

Antique 1965

 

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Camarines Sur G48, 1965- PG48   Georgia SB, Savannah, USA     9.1954 stricken 1974
Sulu G49, 1965- PG49   Georgia SB, Savannah, USA     11.1954 stricken 1974
La Union G50, 1965- PG50   Georgia SB, Savannah, USA     1.1955 stricken 1974
Antique G51, 1965- PG51   Georgia SB, Savannah, USA     5.1955 stricken 1974
Masbate G52, 1965- PG52   Georgia SB, Savannah, USA   29.5.1954 3.1956 lost 1965
Misamis Occidental G53, 1965- PG53   Georgia SB, Savannah, USA     5.1956 stricken 1974

 

Displacement standard, t

121

Displacement full, t

143

Length, m

32.8 wl 33.8 oa

Breadth, m

5.50

Draught, m

2.00 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

1540

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

diesel oil 18
Endurance, nm(kts) 1500 (12)

Armament

2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10 or 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 1 DCR(6)

Electronic equipment

radar, sonar

Complement 27

   

Project history: Six were built under MAP for Philippines. Design based on the 110ft wooden submarine chasers of the Second World War.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Masbate sank in 1965.

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