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PHILIPPINE NAVY (PHILIPPINES)

AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

CAMARINES SUR fire support landing ships (1944-1945/1975-1977)

Camarines Sur 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Camarines Sur (ex-Nguyễn Đức Bóng, ex-Botan, ex-LSSL129, ex-LCS(L)(3)129) LF48   George Lawley, Neponset, USA 12.1944 13.12.1944 12.1944 // 11.1975 stricken 1991
Sulu (ex-Nguyễn Ngọc Long, ex-Shobu, ex-LSSL96, ex-LCS(L)96) LF49   Commercial Iron Works, Portland, USA 12.1944 6.1.1945 1.1945 // 11.1975 stricken 1991
La Union (ex-Đoàn Ngọc Tang, ex-Hallebarde, ex-LSSL9, ex-LCS(L)(3)9) LF50   George Lawley, Neponset, USA 7.1944 8.1944 9.1944 // 11.1975 stricken 1991

 

Displacement standard, t

250

Displacement full, t

387

Length, m

46.6 wl 48.2 oa

Breadth, m

7.21

Draught, m

1.70 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

8 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

1600

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

diesel oil 76

Endurance, nm(kts)

5500 (12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90

Electronic equipment

radar

Complement 71

 

Project history: Former South Vietnamese LCS(L)(3) class support craft, escaped from Saigon to Philippines in April 1975 and acquired in November.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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