BRP Rajah Lakandula
BRP Rajah Lakandula (PF-4) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Camp |
| Builder | Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas |
| Laid down | 27 January 1943 |
| Launched | 16 April 1943 |
| Commissioned | 16 September 1943 |
| Recommissioned | 31 July 1956 |
| Renamed | USS Camp (DER-251) |
| Reclassified | Radar Picket |
| Stricken | 30 December 1975 |
| Motto | If by sea |
| Fate | Transferred to Republic of Vietnam Navy on 13 February 1971. |
| South Vietnam | |
| Name | Tran Hung Dao |
| Operator | Republic of Vietnam Navy |
| Acquired | 13 February 1971 |
| Decommissioned | 1975 |
| Fate | Escaped to the Philippines in 1975 after the fall of South Vietnam. |
| Philippines | |
| Name | Rajah Lakandula |
| Namesake | Lakandula was the native ruler of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Tondo when the Spanish colonizers first came to the island of Luzon. |
| Operator | Philippine Navy |
| Acquired | 5 April 1976 |
| Commissioned | 27 July 1976 |
| Decommissioned | 1988 |
| Stricken | 1988 |
| Fate | Decommissioned from the Philippine Navy in 1988, used as a stationary barracks ship as until 1999. Probably sold as scrap. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Rajah Lakandula-class destroyer escort / frigate |
| Displacement | 1,200 tons standard, 1,590 tons full load |
| Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam | 36.83 ft (11.23 m) |
| Draft | 12.25 ft (3.73 m) |
| Installed power | 6,000 hp (4,500 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (maximum) |
| Range | 9,100 nmi (16,900 km; 10,500 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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BRP Rajah Lakandula (PF-4) was a frigate of the Philippine Navy, and was its only ex-USN Edsall-class destroyer escort. She was also the flagship of the Philippine Navy from 1981 to 1988.