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BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76)

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to turn them over to Philippine authorities, rescuers no longer hearing tapping from inside the ship that lay on her beam ends where Clara had cast her. Soon thereafter, Rear Admiral Simeon Alejandro, Flag Officer in Command of the Philippine Navy, "made an emotional address to the officers and men
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upon the ship's arrival on Manila," the auxiliary's historian records, "thanking each man for his part in the mission and offering the gratitude of the Philippine nation to the Captain and crew." One contemporary account called the loss of
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in 1943, she was mostly assigned at the Atlantic theatre doing escort duties for UGS and GUS convoys. She served in the Pacific theater in the middle of 1945 until she was decommissioned on 14 June 1946.
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was placed in "deferred disposal status pending possible transfer to a foreign government" on 7 July 1947, and two days later was towed back to
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drove her aground on 21 September 1981 on the rocky northern shore of Calayan Island, in the northern Philippines. The ammunition ship
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was a legendary chieftain in the island of Negros who supposedly created in 1433 the first legal code known as the Code of Kalantiaw.
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In July 1980, in line with the re-classification of all Philippine Navy ships, she was renamed BRP
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during the Military Airlift Command's Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service rescue operations.
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10,800 mi (9,400 nmi; 17,400 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
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and the United States," the U.S. Navy disposed of her by Foreign Military Sale and
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An aerial view of the capsized Philippine destroyer escort BRP
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was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 July 1978.
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A view of the capsized Philippine destroyer escort BRP
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Philippine Defense Forum - RPS Datu Kalantiaw PS-76
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Federal Drydock & Shipbuilding Co.
Philippine Navy
Kalantiaw
19°23′25″N 121°23′29″E / 19.39017440035165°N 121.39150737073103°E / 19.39017440035165; 121.39150737073103
destroyer escort
frigate
3"/50 caliber gun
Bofors 40 mm gun
Cannon-class
destroyer escorts
Philippine Navy
BRP Datu Sikatuna (PS-77/PF-5)
BRP Rajah Humabon (PS-78/PF-11)
flagship
Philippine Navy

USS Booth (DE-170)
Mayport
Brewer Dry Dock Co.
Staten Island
New York
Philippine Navy
Philadelphia Navy Yard
destroyer escort
frigate
Philippines

Calayan Island
Typhoon Clara

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