BRP Magat Salamat
BRP Magat Salamat (PS-20) | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Gayety (AM-239) |
| Ordered | 1942 |
| Builder | Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 14 November 1943 |
| Launched | 19 March 1944 |
| Commissioned | 23 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 1 March 1954 |
| Reclassified | Fleet Minesweeper, MSF-239 |
| Fate | Transferred to Republic of Vietnam Navy on 17 April 1962. |
| South Vietnam | |
| Name | Chi Lăng II (HQ-08) |
| Acquired | 17 April 1962 |
| Out of service | 1975 |
| Fate | Escaped to the Philippines in 1975 |
| Philippines | |
| Name | Magat Salamat |
| Namesake | Magat Salamat |
| Acquired | 5 April 1976 |
| Commissioned | 7 February 1977 |
| Decommissioned | 10 December 2021 |
| Reclassified | Patrol Corvette |
| Status | (as of 2021 Dec 28 for temporary use in relief ops) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Miguel Malvar-class corvette (in Philippine Navy service) |
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| Displacement | 945 tons (full load) |
| Length | 184.5 ft (56.2 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 9.75 ft (2.97 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × GM12-278A diesel engines with a combined 2,200 hp (1,600 kW) |
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BRP Magat Salamat (PS-20) is one of several Miguel Malvar class of patrol corvettes in service with the Philippine Navy. She was originally built as USS Gayety (AM-239), an Admirable-class minesweeper with a similar hull to the PCE-842-class patrol craft produced during World War II. In 1962 she was transferred to South Vietnam for service in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as RVNS Chi Lang II (HQ-08). She was acquired by the Philippine Navy in April 1976 and later on commissioned as Magat Salamat. Along with other ex-World War II veteran ships of the Philippine Navy, she is considered one of the oldest active fighting ships in the world today.