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RAJAH LAKANDULA frigate (1943/1976)

Rajah Lakandula 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rajah Lakandula (ex-Trần Hưng Đạo, ex-Camp) PS4   Brown SB, Houston, USA 1.1943 16.4.1943 16.9.1943 // 5.4.1976 hulk late 1988

 

Displacement standard, t

1590

Displacement full, t

1850

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

4.27 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Fairbanks Morse 38D1/8x10 diesels

Power, h. p.

6080

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

diesel oil 300

Endurance, nm(kts) 11500(11)

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, 1 x (1 - 81/12 M29 mortar + 1 - 12.7/90), 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT

Electronic equipment

SPS-28, SPS-10, Mk 34 radars, SQS-31 sonar

Complement

150

 

Project history: USN destroyer escort of Edsall (FMR) class, converted to radar picket after WWII. Transferred to South Vietnam 6.2.1971, escaped in April 1975 to Philippines, acquired by them and formally transferred and commissioned next year.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Rajah Lakandula 1977

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