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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