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PHILIPPINE NAVY (PHILIPPINES)

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NEGROS ORIENTAL large patrol craft

Negros Oriental 1945

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Camarines Sur (ex-PC1121) PS21 Defoe, Bay City, USA 6/1942 27/8/1942 12/1942 // 1947 stricken 1953
Bohol (ex-PC1131) PS22 Defoe, Bay City, USA 10/1942 17/12/1942 7/1943 // 1947 scrapped 1969
Zamboanga del Sur (ex-PC1133) PS23 Defoe, Bay City, USA 11/1942 9/1/1943 8/1943 // 1948 stricken 10/1956
Batangas (ex-PC1134) PS24 Defoe, Bay City, USA 12/1942 18/1/1943 9/1943 // 7/1948 stricken 1979
Nueva Esija (ex-PC1241) PS25 Nashville Bridge, USA 9/1942 24/12/1942 5/1943 // 10/1948 stricken 1977
Negros Oriental (ex-PC1563) PS26 Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA 2/1944 24/3/1944 6/1944 // 5/1945 lost 11/11/1962
Capiz (ex-PC1564) PS27 Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA 2/1944 19/4/1944 8/1944 // 7/1947 stricken 1979
Negros Oriental (ex-L`Inconstant, ex-PC1171) PS29 Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA 3/1943 15/5/1943 9/1943 // 12/1976 stricken 1989
Nueva Viscaya (ex-Altus, ex-PC568) PS80 Brown, Houston, USA 9/1941 25/4/1942 7/1942 // 3/1968 lost 13/11/1989

 

Displacement standard, t

414

Displacement full, t

463

Length, m

51.8 wl 52.9 oa

Breadth, m

7.06

Draught, m

3.30 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

2880

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

diesel oil 49
Endurance, nm (kts) 3000 (12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 10/19/20/21, 1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap DCT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Sensors

SF or SO or SU radar, sonar

Complement 65

 

Ship project history: Former USN patrol PC1573 of 173ft type was transferred the first in 1945 after service under US flag.
In 1947-1968 Philippines received seven more ships of PC type from USA, and also one more sister ship of former Cambodian fleet which have left from "red khmers" in 1975 and was commissioned in 1976.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Negros Oriental foundered off Guam 11/11/1962 during typhoon "Karen". She was raised and broken up in June, 1963. Nueva Viscaya was lost 13/11/1989 during typhoon.

Nueva Ecija 1953

Capiz 1970s

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