BRP Apolinario Mabini
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Plover |
Builder | Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen |
Laid down | 1982 |
Launched | 12 April 1983 |
Commissioned | 1984 |
Decommissioned | 1 August 1997 |
Fate | Transferred to Philippine Navy in 1997. |
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Philippines | |
Name | Apolinario Mabini |
Namesake | Apolinario Mabini (1864–1903), was a Filipino theoretician who wrote the constitution for the first Philippine republic of 1899–1901, and served as its first prime minister in 1899. |
Operator | Philippine Navy |
Acquired | 1 August 1997 |
Commissioned | 4 August 1997 |
Nickname(s) | Apomabs |
Status | In service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Jacinto class |
Type | Patrol Corvette |
Displacement | 763 tons full load |
Length | 205.4 ft (62.6 m) |
Beam | 32.8 ft (10.0 m) |
Draft | 8.9 ft (2.7 m) |
Installed power | 3 × CAT 3406C diesel generators each producing 465 bhp (347 kW)[3] |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) (sustained speed) |
Range | 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)[1] |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × Avon Searaider 5.4m 30-kn. 10-man Semi-rigid boat aft[2] |
Complement | 31 |
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Armament |
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Armor | Belted Steel |
The BRP Apolinario Mabini (PS-36) is the second ship of the Jacinto-class corvettes currently assigned to the Offshore Combat Force of the Philippine Fleet. She is one of few ships in the Philippine Navy equipped with modern systems after the completion of combat, navigation and weapon systems upgrade of her class in August 2019.[4] She is named after Apolinario Mabini, a hero of the Philippine revolution and a former prime minister. She was originally called HMS Plover (P240) during her service with the Royal Navy.
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