BRP ''General Emilio Aguinaldo'' was the lead ship of the ''General Emilio Aguinaldo''-class patrol vessel of the

Philippine Navy The Philippine Navy (PN) ( tgl, Hukbong Dagat ng Pilipinas, , Sea Army of the Philippines) ( es, Armada de Filipinas, , Ejército del Mar de las Filipinas) is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It has an e ...

. This ship, along with her only sistership , were one of the last that were made in the Cavite Naval Ship Yard. The original plan called for 6 ''General Emilio Aguinaldo'' class vessels to be built, but this number was not reached.''Opus224's Unofficial Philippine Defense Page'
Philippine Naval Force Recognition Guide
. The ship was decommissioned sometime in mid-2016 as its hull was found to be in poor shape and deteriorated faster than expected.

Technical details

The ship's basic hull design was based on the Japanese-designed Tirad Pass SAR vessel, and the superstructure was adopted from the German-designed ''Kagitingan'' class. The class's design was found to be overloaded and underpowered and due to this, there were no more plans to build all the ships originally planned. The present weapon systems of the ship are composed of manually operated gun platforms, some guns which are from World War II origin. They are composed of two Mk.3 Bofors 40 mm 60-cal single-mount guns acting as the ship's primary weapon, together with two 20 mm Oerlikon single-mount anti-aircraft guns and four 12.7 mm general purpose machine guns. The ship is powered by four GM Detroit Diesel 12V92 TA diesel engines with a combined power of around driving four

propeller A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon ...

s. The main engines can propel the 279-ton (full load) ship at a maximum speed of around . It has a maximum range of at a speed of .

References

External links

World Warships Website - Philippines
{{DEFAULTSORT:General Emilio Aguinaldo (Pg-140) 1984 ships Ships of the Philippine Navy