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PHILIPPINE NAVY (PHILIPPINES)

ESCORTS

RIZAL corvettes (1944-1945/1965-1967)

Rizal 1970

Rizal 1978

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Rizal (ex-Murrelet) PS69, 1996- PS74   Savannah Machine & Foundry Co., USA 8.1944 29.12.1944 8.1945 // 18.6.1965 in service (2019)
Quezon (ex-Vigilance) PS70   Associated, Seattle, USA 11.1942 5.4.1943 2.1944 // 19.8.1967 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

1090

Displacement full, t

1250

Length, m

65.5 wl 67.4 oa

Breadth, m

9.80

Draught, m

3.28 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 electric motors, 2 General Motors diesel-generators

Power, h. p.

2880

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

diesel oil 200
Endurance, nm(kts) 6370 (16.5)

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment SPS-5C, DAS3 radars, SQS-17B sonar

Complement

100

 

Project history: Former US Navy minesweepers (originally designated AM). Upon transfer the minesweeping gear was removed and a second 76mm gun fitted aft.

Modernizations: mid-1970s, both: - 1 x 1 - 76/50; + raised helicopter pad (no hangar)

1996, both: - 2 x 2 - 20/70, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR, helicopter pad, SPS-5C, DAS3 radars, SQS-17B sonar; + 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90; 2x SPS-64 radars

2000s, both: - SPS-64 radar; + DAS 3 radar

Naval service: No significant events.

Quezon 1976

Rizal 2001

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