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TRẨN HƯNG ÐẠO frigates (1943-1944/1971)


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Trần Hưng Đạo 1971

Ships


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)


Technical data


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 equipmentSPS-28, SPS-10, Mk 34 radars, SQS-31 sonar
Complement

170



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<i>Trần Hưng Đạo </i>1975
Trần Hưng Đạo 1975


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<i>Trần Hưng Đạo </i>1971
Trần Hưng Đạo 1971


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.