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PHAM NGŨ LAÕ frigate (1943/1975)


Ships


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


Technical data


Displacement standard, t2040
Displacement full, t2800
Length, m

91.4 wl 94.7 oa

Breadth, m

12.5

Draught, m

3.78 full load

No of shafts2
Machinery

4 Fairbank-Morse diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

6080

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, tdiesel oil 260
Endurance, nm(kts)6000 (12)
Armament

1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 1 - 81/12 M29 mortars

Electronic equipmentSPS-21, SPS-29, Mk 26 radars
Complement

200



Standard scale images


<i>Phạm Ngũ Lão</i> 1975
Phạm Ngũ Lão 1975


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.