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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
(ex-L9039, ex-LSIL875, ex-LCI(L)875)	P111		Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA			10.1944 // 1957	escaped to Philippines 17.4.1975 (Marinduque)
(ex-Medecin Capitaine le Gall, ex-LSIL476, ex-LCI(L)476)	P112		New Jersey SB, Barber, USA			10.1943 // 1957	escaped to Philippines 17.4.1975

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	230
Displacement full, t	P111: 387 P112: 350
Length, m	46.6 wl 48.9 oa
Breadth, m	7.21
Draught, m	P111: 1.74 P112: 1.83
No of shafts	2
Machinery	8 General Motors diesels
Power, h. p.	2320
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	P111: diesel oil 100 P112: diesel oil 120
Endurance, nm(kts)	8000(12)
Armament	P111: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10 P112: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10
Electronic equipment	SO radar
Complement	P111: 58 P112: 40

Standard scale images

Project history

Former USN LCI(L) type large infantry landing craft, transferred to France in 1951, rearmed as support gunboats and transferred to Cambodia in 1957.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Both escaped to the Philippines 17.4.1975, P111 was later incorporated in the Philippine Navy as Marinduque.

© Ivan Gogin, 2016