Phạm Ngũ Lão 1975
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Phạm Ngũ Lão (ex-Absecon) | HQ-01 | Lake Washington, Houghton, USA | 7.1941 | 8.3.1942 | 28.1.1943 // 4.1975 | deleted ~2005-2006 |
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Displacement standard, t |
2040 |
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Displacement full, t |
2800 |
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Length, m |
91.4 wl 94.7 oa |
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Breadth, m |
12.5 |
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Draught, m |
3.78 full load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
4 Fairbank-Morse diesel-generators, 2 electric motors |
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Power, h. p. |
6080 |
|
Max speed, kts |
18 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 260 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 6000 (12) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 1 - 81/12 M29 mortars |
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Electronic equipment |
SPS-21, SPS-29, Mk 26 radars |
|
Complement |
200 |
Project history: Former US Barnegat class seaplane tender, transferred to South Vietnam after service as USCG cutter. Phạm Ngũ Lão was in April 1975 captured at Saigon by North Vietnamese Army and commissioned by Vietnam People's Navy under the same name.
Modernizations: late 1970s: + 2 x 1 P-15 SSM (2 P-15)
late 1980s: - 2 x 1 - 81/12 mortars; + 2 x 4 Fasta-4M SAM (8 9K32), 3 x 1 - 37/63 70K, 2 x 2 - 25/82 2M-3M
Naval service: No significant events.
© Ivan Gogin, 2019