BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19)
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 BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) |
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| Career (United States of America) |  |
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| Name: | USS PCE(R)-852 |
| Builder: | Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL |
| Laid down: | 28 October 1943 |
| Launched: | 1 March 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 26 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 November 1965 |
| Renamed: | USS Brattleboro (EPCER-852) |
| Reclassified: | Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue) |
| Fate: | Sold to Republic of Vietnam Navy on 11 July 1966. Escaped to the to Philippines in 1975 after the fall of South Vietnam. |
| Career (Philippines) |  |
| Name: | BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) |
| Namesake: | Miguel Malvar y Carpio (1865 - 1911) was a Filipino commander who served during the Philippine Revolution and subsequently during the Philippine American War. |
| Operator: | Philippine Navy |
| Commissioned: | November 1975 |
| Reclassified: | Patrol Corvette |
| Fate: | in service with the Philippine Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Miguel Malvar class |
| Type: | Patrol Corvette |
| Displacement: | 914 Tons (Full Load) |
| Length: | 184.5 ft (56.2 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 9.75 ft (2.97 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,200 hp |
| Propulsion: | Main: 2 x GM 12-278A 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), |
| Range: | 6,600 nmi at 11 knots |
| Complement: | 85 |
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The BRP Miguel Malvar (PS-19) 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. Along with other ex-World War II veteran ships of the Philippine Navy, she is considered as one of the oldest active fighting ships in the world today.[2]
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[edit] History
Commissioned in the US Navy as the USS PCER-852 in 1944, she was first assigned in the Atlantic theatre of operations engaged in patrolling and training. On 1 August 1944, PCER-852 stood out of Bermuda bound for Norfolk, Virginia with 26 prisoners of war—sailors from the German submarine U-505, captured in June by a “hunter-killer” group formed around escort carrier Guadalcanal (CVE-60).
Relocating to the Pacific theatre of operations, her duties included treatment of wounded sailors and soldiers, and ASW patrols during the invasion of the Philippines at Leyte Gulf and Lingayen Gulf, and in the operations at Okinawa. After the war she was placed under the Atlantic Reserve Fleet but was not decommissioned.
Early in 1946, however, she was converted into an experimental ship to test infrared equipment for the Bureau of Ships. At that time, she was redesignated E-PCER-852. She completed the conversion in May of 1946. In September of 1947, the Bureau of Ships shifted the infrared test program to the Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London, Connecticut, and E-PCER-852 operated from that base.
For the next 18 years, the ship continued to do experimental work. By the early 1950s the nature of her test work expanded from infrared gear to include optical communications equipment, sonar apparatus, weather gear, and various other items of hardware. In addition to the Bureau of Ships, she did test work for both the Bureau of Ordnance and the Office of Naval Research. On 15 February 1956, the ship was named Brattleboro. She continued her experimental duties for nearly a decade after receiving her name. During that time, her zone of operations also expanded to include the coastal waters along the southeastern United States and thence into the West Indies. On 1 October 1965, Brattleboro was ordered to Philadelphia to begin inactivation. Decommissioned at Philadelphia and struck from the Navy list on 1 November 1965.[3]
She was then transferred to the Republic of Vietnam on 11 July 1966. She served the Vietnamese Navy as Ngoc Hoi (HQ-12) up until her escape to the Philippines in 1975, together with other South Vietnamese Navy ships and their respective crew.[4]
She was commissioned into the Philippine Navy and was renamed RPS (now BRP) Miguel Malvar (PS-19). She is currently assigned with the Patrol Force of the Philippine Fleet, and is considered as one of the most decorated ship of the Navy.[5]
[edit] Technical details
Originally the ship was armed with one 3"/50 caliber dual purpose gun, two single Bofors 40 mm guns, four 20 mm Oerlikon guns, 1 Hedgehog depth charge projector, four depth charge projectiles (K-guns) and two depth charge tracks.[6]
The same configuration applies up until the late 1980s when the Philippine Navy removed most of her old anti-submarine weapons and systems, and added four 12.7 mm general purpose machine guns, making her lighter and ideal for surface patrols, but losing her limited anti-submarine warfare capability.
The ship is powered by two GM 12-278A diesel engines with a combined rating of around 2,200 bhp driving two propellers. The main engines can propel the 914 tons (full load) ship to a maximum speed of around 16 knots (30 km/h).[7]
There are slight difference between the BRP Miguel Malvar 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.
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[edit] References
- ^ Jane's Fighting Ships 2004-2005
- ^ Armed Forces of the Philippines Order of Battle. Philippine Navy.
- ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Brattleboro page.
- ^ NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive. Brattleboro (EPCE[R 852) ex-PCE(R)-852].
- ^ USS PCER-852 Offical Website. Ship History.
- ^ NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive. Brattleboro (EPCE[R 852) ex-PCE(R)-852].
- ^ DLSU N-ROTC Office. Naming and Code Designation of PN Vessels.
[edit] External links
- Philippine Defense Forum
- Philippine Navy @ Hazegray.org
- DLSU ROTC
- Opus224's Unofficial Philippine Defense Page
- NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive
[edit] See also
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