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RAJAH SOLIMAN frigate (1943/1960)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Rajah Soliman (ex-Bowers) D66   Bethlehem, San Francisco, USA 5/1943 31.10.1943 1/1944 // 31.10.1960 foundered 29.6.1964


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1432

Displacement full, t

1823

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.3

Draught, m

3.43 ful load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Electric steam turbine-generators, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

12000

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

oil 359

Endurance, nm(kts)5000(15) - 5500(15)
Armament

1 x 1 -127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 8 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 DCR

Military load4 LCVP, 162 troops
Electronic equipmentpresumably SPS-5 or SPS-6 radar, QGA sonar
Complement

186



Standard scale images


<i>Rajah Soliman </i>1963
Rajah Soliman 1963


Project history

Former US high speed transport converted from destroyer escort built in 1943. Transferred under MAP. Fitted as command ship for the Philippine Navy.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

 Rajah Soliman capsized 29.6.1964 alongside the pier of Bataan National Shipyard during typhoon, hulk was raised but sold for BU in January 1966.