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Name | Cyclone |
Namesake | Cyclone |
Awarded | 1 August 1990 |
Builder | Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana |
Cost | US$25.69 million |
Laid down | 22 June 1991 |
Launched | 1 February 1992 |
Commissioned | 7 August 1993 |
Decommissioned | 28 February 2000 |
Stricken | 28 February 2000 |
Identification | PC-1 |
Motto | Fast and Furious |
Fate | Transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard on 29 February 2000. Transferred to Philippine Navy in 2004. [1] |
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Name | General Mariano Alvarez |
Namesake | Mariano Álvarez |
Operator | Philippine Navy |
Acquired | January 2004 [2] |
Commissioned | 8 March 2004 [3] |
Identification | PS-176 |
Status | In service |
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Class and type | Mariano Alvarez class |
Type | Coastal Patrol Vessel |
Displacement | 357 tons full load |
Length | 170.3 ft (51.9 m) |
Beam | 25.9 ft (7.9 m) |
Draft | 7.9 ft (2.4 m) |
Installed power | 13,400 hp (10,000 kW) |
Propulsion | 4 × Paxman Valenta 16V RP-200CM Diesel Engines, 4 propellers |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) (maximum) |
Range | 2,900 mi (2,500 nmi; 4,700 km)at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Endurance | 10 days |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 × 20-foot RHIB |
Complement | 28 + 8 |
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