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PHILIPPINE NAVY (PHILIPPINES)

COASTAL FORCES

PCF300 coastal patrol craft (1966-1970)

Names

Swift Mk I:

PCF300, 301

PCF302-304 (ex-PCF35-37), 1992- DF300-304

Swift Mk II:

PCF305-316, 1992- DF305-316

domestic built:

PCF317, 1992- DF317

Builders

Sewart Seacraft, Berwick, USA: PCF300-316

Philippines: PCF317

Completed

3/1966: PCF300, 301

1960s.8.1966: PCF302-304

2/1968: PCF305-313

7.1970: PCF314-316

1970: PCF317

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1976: PCF304, 306

2017-2018: DF305

in service (2019, Coast Guard): DF300-303, 307-313, 317

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

23

Length, m

Mk I: 15.2

Mk II: 15.6

Breadth, m

4.12

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors 12V71T diesels

Power, h. p.

960

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

400(22)

Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/90, 1x(1-12.7/90+1-81/12 M29 mortar)

Electronic equipment

LN-66 radar

Complement

6-8

   

Project history: Swift Mk I and II type inshore patrol craft. PCF302-305 served in USN prior the transfer, rest were built under MAP. PCF317 had ferro-concrete hull and used as a yacht for the president's wife.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

PCF308 1977

DF308 1998

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