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RAJAH LAKANDULA frigate (1943/1976)


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Rajah Lakandula 1977

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rajah Lakandula (ex-Trần Hưng Đạo, ex-Camp) PS4   Brown SB, Houston, USA 1.1943 16.4.1943 16.9.1943 // 5.4.1976 hulk late 1988


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1590

Displacement full, t

1850

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

4.27 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Fairbanks Morse 38D1/8x10 diesels

Power, h. p.

6080

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

diesel oil 300

Endurance, nm(kts)11500(11)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, 1 x (1 - 81/12 M29 mortar + 1 - 12.7/90), 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT

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

150



Standard scale images


<i>Rajah Lakandula </i>1980
Rajah Lakandula 1980


Graphics


<i>Rajah Lakandula </i>1977
Rajah Lakandula 1977


Project history

USN destroyer escort of Edsall (FMR) class, converted to radar picket after WWII. Transferred to South Vietnam 6.2.1971, escaped in April 1975 to Philippines, acquired by them and formally transferred and commissioned next year.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.