BRP Rizal (PS-74)
BRP Rizal at CARAT Philippines 2005 exercises
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 United States
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| Name: | Murrelet |
| Builder: | Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA |
| Laid down: | 24 August 1944 |
| Launched: | 29 December 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 24 August 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 March 1957 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1964 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Philippine Navy in 1965. |
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| Name: | Rizal |
| Namesake: | Dr. Jose Rizal (1861 – 1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. The national hero of the Philippines. |
| Operator: | Philippine Navy |
| Commissioned: | 18 June 1965 |
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| Status: | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Rizal class |
| Type: | Patrol Corvette |
| Displacement: | 890 tons standard, 1,250 tons full load |
| Length: | 221.67 ft (67.57 m) |
| Beam: | 32.67 ft (9.96 m) |
| Draft: | 10.75 ft (3.28 m) |
| Installed power: | 5,800 shp (4,300 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × EMD 16V-645C Diesel Engines |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) maximum |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 80 |
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The BRP Rizal (PS-74) is the lead ship and first of two Rizal class ships in service with the Philippine Navy. She is an ex-USN Auk class minesweeper that was produced during World War II, and is now classified as a patrol 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.
USS Murrelet (AM-372) was commissioned with the US Navy in 1945, her duty was to sweep mines along the Japanese and Korean waters from January to April 1946. She was decommissioned in 1948 and was placed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
She was again recommissioned in 1950. She arrived Yokosuka, Japan, in August 1951 to aid United Nations forces opposing Communist aggression. Departing Yokosuka 21 August, she sailed to Korea, participating in operations north of Wonsan, in the Hungnam, Songjin, and Chongjin areas. She continued sweeping and patrol duties off Korea in 1952, capturing and destroying several enemy sampans, until July, when she returned to the west coast. Murrelet started a second tour of duty off Korea in April 1953, returning to Long Beach in December. Murrelet received five battle stars for Korean service.
Redesignated MSF-372, 7 February 1955, she continued to operate off the west coast. She decommissioned 14 March 1957, and was assigned to the Pacific Reserve fleet. Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1964, she was transferred 18 June 1965 to the Philippine Republic under the Military Assistance Program.
She was commissioned with the Philippine Navy on 18 June 1965 and was renamed RPS Rizal (E-69), but was later on re-classified as a corvette and renamed to RPS Rizal (PS-69) under a new ship classification scheme implemented between 1965 and 1966. Again in June 1980 she was renamed BRP Rizal (PS-69) using a new localized prefix.
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