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Andrés Bonifacio 1977

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Andrés Bonifacio (ex-Lý Thường Kiệt, ex-Chincoteague)	PS7		Lake Washington, Houghton, USA	7.1941	15.4.1942	12.4.1943 // 5.4.1976	stricken 6.1993
Gregorio del Pilar (ex-Ngô Quyền, ex-McCulloch, ex-Wachapreague)	PS8, 1987- PS12		Lake Washington, Houghton, USA	2.1943	10.7.1943	17.5.1944 // 5.4.1976	stricken 6.1985, recommissioned 1987, discarded 7.1990
Diego Silang (ex-Trần Quang Khải, ex-Bering Strait)	PS9, 1987- PS14		Lake Washington, Houghton, USA	6.1943	15.1.1944	19.7.1944 // 5.4.1976	stricken 6.1985, recommissioned 1987, discarded 7.1990
Francisco Dagohoy (ex-Trần Bình Trọng, ex-Castle Rock)	PS10		Lake Washington, Houghton, USA	7.1943	11.3.1944	8.10.1944 // 5.4.1976	discarded 3.1993

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2040
Displacement full, t	2800
Length, m	91.4 wl 94.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.27 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 Fairbank-Morse 38D81/8x10 diesel-generators, 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	6080
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	diesel oil 400
Endurance, nm(kts)	18000(12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90
Electronic equipment	SPS-53, SPS-29, Mk 26 radars
Complement	160

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Project history

Former USN Barnegat class seaplane tenders, converted to Coast Guard cutters and transferred to South Vietnam in 1971-1972. In 1975 they escaped from Saigon to Philippines and acquired by Philippine Navy 5.4.1976. Andrés Bonifacio was commissioned 27.7.1976, Gregorio del Pilar 7.2.1977, Francisco Dagohoy 23.6.1979.

Modernizations

1978-1979, all: + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1 (extremely at the stern, 95.7m length oa), helicopter deck for BO-105

Naval service

No significant events.