TS Kapitan Felix Oca

The TS Kapitan Felix Oca
Career (Japan)
Name: Seiun Maru
Builder: NKK Corporation of Japan
Launched: July 1968
Decommissioned: 1997
Renamed: Kapitan Felix Oca
Fate: transferred to AMOSUP
Career (Philippines)
Name: Kapitan Felix Oca
Namesake: CAPT FELIX M OCA
Owner: Associated Marine Officers and Seamen’s Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP)
Operator:

Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific

Philippine Navy Reserve Command
Acquired: 1997
Commissioned: 1997
Homeport: Kamaya Point, Alas-asin, Mariveles, Bataan
Nickname: Kapitan Oca
Status: in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Type:Training Ship
Length:144.55 m (474.2 ft)
Beam:13 m (43 ft)
Installed power:Hitachi 2BF-110 750 VT-B&W Diesel Engine
Propulsion:Water Tube 1 unit single drum
Speed:16.72 knots (30.97 km/h; 19.24 mph)
Capacity:208 merchant marine mfficers, merchant marine sailors, and maritime cadets
Crew:28 merchant mariners
Aviation facilities:Flight deck

TS Kapitan Felix Oca is a Training Ship of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific. It was acquired by AMOSUP in 1997 and transferred operational control to MAAP. It was designated on September 24, 1999 as an Affiliated Naval Reserve Ship of the Philippine Navy Reserve Command.[1]

Construction and design

The ship was originally constructed as a Training Ship for mariners and maritime cadets of the Inter Pacific Lines Co. Ltd. of Japan. Construction started in July 1968 and was christened as the TS Seuin Maru.[1]

Operational History

TF Damayan

The TS Kapitan Felix Oca was activated by the Philippine Navy Reserve Command as part of an international relief coalition to assist the provinces affected by Typhoon Haiyan. They were tasked to help ferry relief goods and rescue personnel to typhoon ravaged areas of Leyte after TS Haiyan left the province in ruins in November 2013.[2]

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