Trần Hưng Đạo 1975
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Trần Hưng Đạo (ex-Camp) | HQ1 | Brown SB, Houston, USA | 1.1943 | 16.4.1943 | 16.9.1943 // 6.2.1971 | escaped to Philippines 4.1975 (Rajah Lakandula) | |
Trần Khánh Dư (ex-Forster) | HQ4 | Consolidated, Orange, USA | 8.1943 | 13.11.1943 | 25.1.1944 // 25.9.1971 | captured by North Vietnam 29.4.1975 (Dai Ky) |
Displacement standard, t |
1590 |
Displacement full, t |
1850 |
Length, m |
91.4 wl 93.3 oa |
Breadth, m |
11.2 |
Draught, m |
3.20 full load |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
4 Fairbanks Morse diesels |
Power, h. p. |
6000 |
Max speed, kts |
21 |
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 320 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 9000 (12) |
Armament |
2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 x 24 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, 2 DCR (120) |
Electronic equipment |
SPS-28, SPS-10, Mk 34 radars, SQS-31 sonar |
Complement |
170 |
Project history: Former US FMR (Edsall) class destroyer escorts, converted after WWII to radar pickets.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Trần Hưng Đạo in April 1975 escaped to Philippines and later commissioned by Philippine Navy as Rajah Lakandula. Trần Khánh Dư was 29.4.1975 captured at Saigon by North Vietnamese Army and commissioned by Vietnam People's Navy as Dai Ky.
Trần Hưng Đạo 1971
© Ivan Gogin, 2018