BRP Leyte (PS-30)
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 BRP Leyte (PS-30) |
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| Career (United States of America) |  |
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| Name: | USS PCE-885 |
| Builder: | Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon |
| Laid down: | 25 February 1944 |
| Launched: | 20 June 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 30 April 1945 |
| Fate: | Transfered to the Philippines in July 1948. |
| Career (Philippines) |  |
| Name: | BRP Leyte (PS-30) |
| Namesake: | Leyte is one of the provinces in the Visayas, Philippines. |
| Operator: | Philippine Navy |
| Commissioned: | 1948 |
| Reclassified: | Patrol Corvette |
| Fate: | decommissioned from the Philippine Navy in 1979 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Miguel Malvar class |
| Type: | Patrol Corvette |
| Displacement: | 880.8 Tons (Full Load) |
| Length: | 184.5 ft (56.2 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 9.75 ft (2.97 m) |
| Propulsion: | Main: 2 x GM 12-567A diesel engines Auxiliary: 2 x GM 6-71 diesel engines with 100KW gen and 1 x GM 3-268A diesel engine with 60KW gen |
| Speed: | 16 Knots (maximum), |
| Endurance: | 5370 nmi |
| Complement: | around 77 |
| Armament: | 1 x 3"/50 caliber gun (76 mm) Mk22 dual purpose gun 3 × twin Bofors 40 mm gun 5 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 4 x Depth Charge Projectors 1 x Hedgehog Projector 2 x Depth Charge tracks |
The BRP Leyte (PS-30) is one of several Miguel Malvar class Patrol Corvettes in service with the Philippine Navy. She is formerly an ex-USN Patrol Craft Escort based on the Admirable class minesweeper hull that were produced during World War II, and is now classified as a corvette protecting the vast waters of the Philippines. She is actually one of the first of her class in service with the Philippine Navy (as other ships of her class were commissioned in 1975).[1]
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[edit] History
Commissioned in the US Navy as the USS PCER-885 in 1945, and was decommissioned after World War II.
She was then transferred and commissioned into the Philippine Navy and was renamed RPS Leyte (PS-29) in 1948. She was decommissioned in 1979 after being grounded.[2]
[edit] Technical details
Originally the ship was armed with one 3"/50 caliber dual purpose gun, three twin Bofors 40 mm guns, five 20 mm Oerlikon guns, 1 Hedgehog depth charge projector, four depth charge projectiles (K-guns) and two depth charge tracks.[3]
There were slight differences between the BRP Leyte as compared to some of her sister ships in the Philippine Navy, since her previous configuration was as a patrol craft escort, while the others are configured as minesweepers and patrol craft escort rescue ships.
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[edit] References
- ^ Manokski's Armed Forces of the Philippines Order of Battle. Philippine Navy.
- ^ World Warships. Philippine Navy.
- ^ NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive. PCE-885.
[edit] External links
- Philippine Defense Forum
- Philippine Navy @ Hazegray.org
- DLSU ROTC
- Opus224's Unofficial Philippine Defense Page
- NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive
[edit] See also
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