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NEGROS ORIENTAL large patrol craft (1942-1944/1945-1976)


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Nueva Ecija 1953

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Camarines Sur (ex-PC1121) C21   Defoe, Bay City, USA 6.1942 27.8.1942 12.1942 // 1947 stricken 1953
Bohol (ex-PC1131) C22, 1965- PS22   Defoe, Bay City, USA 10.1942 17.12.1942 7.1943 // 1947 scrapped 1969
Zamboanga del Sur (ex-PC1133) C23   Defoe, Bay City, USA 11.1942 9.1.1943 8.1943 // 1948 stricken 10.1956
Batangas (ex-PC1134) C24, 1965- PS24   Defoe, Bay City, USA 12.1942 18.1.1943 9.1943 // 7.1948 stricken 1979
Nueva Esija (ex-PC1241) C25, 1965- PS25   Nashville Bridge, USA 9.1942 24.12.1942 5.1943 // 10.1948 stricken 1977
Negros Oriental (ex-PC1563) C26   Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA 2.1944 24.3.1944 6.1944 // 5.1945 lost 11.11.1962
Capiz (ex-PC1564) C27, 1965- 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


Technical data


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 shafts2
Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

2880

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, tdiesel oil 49
Endurance, nm(kts)3000 (12)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment

SF or SO or SU radar, QHA sonar

PS29: SPN-18 radar, SQS-17B sonar

PS80: SPN-18, Decca 202 radars, SQS-17B sonar

Complement65


Standard scale images


<i>Batangas </i>1965
Batangas 1965


Graphics


<i>Nueva Ecija </i>1953
Nueva Ecija 1953
<i>Capiz </i>1970s
Capiz 1970s


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

1970s, all survived: new sensors consisted of SPN-18 radar, SQS-17B sonar

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 at Cebu.