BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5)

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Career (United States of America) United States Navy ensign
Name: USS Amick (DE-168)
Ordered: 1942
Builder: Federal Drydock & Shipbuilding Co.
Laid down: 30 November 1942
Launched: 27 May 1943
Commissioned: 26 July 1943
Decommissioned: 16 May 1947
Struck: 15 June 1978
Fate: Transferred to JMSDF in 1955, reverted back to US Navy in 1975. Transferred to Philippine Navy in 1976.[1]
Career (Philippines)
Name: RPS Datu Sikatuna (PS-77)
Namesake: Datu Sikatuna was the chieftain of Bohol, who made a blood compact and allianced with the Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi in 16 March 1565.
Operator: Philippine Navy
Commissioned: 1976
Fate: Striken and scrapped on 1989.
General characteristics
Class and type: Datu Kalantiaw class
Type: Destroyer Escort / Frigate
Displacement: 1,240 tons standard, 1,620 tons full load
Length: 306 ft (93 m)
Beam: 36.66 ft (11.17 m)
Draft: 8.75 ft (2.67 m) 8.75 ft
Installed power: 6,000 hp
Propulsion: 4 x GM 16-278A Diesel Engines
Speed: 21 knots (maximum)
Range: 10,800 mi at 12 knots
Armament:
  • 3 × 3"/50 caliber gun Mk22 dual purpose guns
  • 1 × Mk1 Twin Bofors 40 mm gun
  • 8 × 20 mm Mk4 Oerlikon
  • 3 x 21" Mk15 Torpedo Tubes
  • 1 x Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds)
  • 8 x Mk6 Depth Charge Projectors
  • 2 x Mk9 Depth Charge Tracks

The RPS Datu Sikatuna (PF-5) was the one of the three ex-USN Cannon-class destroyer escort that served with the Philippine Navy, the others being BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) and BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11).

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[edit] History

as USS Amick (DE-168)
as USS Amick (DE-168)

Commissioned in the US Navy as the USS Amick (DE-168) in 1943, she was mostly assigned at the Atlantic theatre doing escort duties for transatlantic convoys. She served in the Pacific theatre in the middle of 1945, and received the unconditional surrender of all Japanese forces in the northern Palaus, which was received by the Americans in the wardroom on board Amick on September 1945. Amick was reassigned back to the Atlantic Fleet on December 1945 and remained in semi-active status until her decommissioning on May 1947.

as JMSDF Asahi (DE-262)
as JMSDF Asahi (DE-262)

She was transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Asahi (DE-262) from 1955 until 1975, wherein she was returned to the US Navy.[2]

She was then transferred by the US government to the Philippines in September 1976 and was was commissioned to the Philippine Navy as the RPS Datu Sikatuna (PS-77), and formed the backbone of the Philippine Fleet together with 2 of her sister ships and other ex-US Navy destroyer escorts. She was reclassified as BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5), now using the "BRP" ship naming standard and carrying a "Frigate" classification, and served until 1989 when she was decommissioned and scrapped. She became a parts hulk for the remaining ship of her class, the BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11).

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Amick page.
  2. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Amick page.

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