BRP Apolinario Mabini (PS-36)
BRP Apolinario Mabini
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Plover |
| Builder: | Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen |
| Laid down: | 1982 |
| Launched: | 12 April 1983 |
| Commissioned: | 1984 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 August 1997 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Philippine Navy in 1997. |
| Badge: |  |
 Philippines
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| Name: | Apolinario Mabini |
| Namesake: | Apolinario Mabini (1864-1903), was a Filipino theoretician who wrote the constitution for the first Philippine republic of 1899-1901, and served as its first prime minister in 1899. |
| Operator: | Philippine Navy |
| Acquired: | 1 August 1997 |
| Commissioned: | 4 August 1997 |
| Fate: | In service with the Philippine Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Jacinto class(also known at Tatlong Bayani class) |
| Type: | Patrol Corvette |
| Displacement: | 763 tons full load |
| Length: | 205.4 ft (62.6 m) |
| Beam: | 32.8 ft (10.0 m) |
| Draft: | 8.9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Installed power: | 14,188 bhp (10,580 kW) |
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| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) (sustained speed) |
| Range: | 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
2 × Avon Searaider 5.4m 30-kn. 10-man Semi-rigid boat aft |
| Complement: | 31 |
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| Armor: | Belted Steel |
The BRP Apolinario Mabini is one of the three Jacinto-class corvettes, and are considered as one of the most modern ships in the Philippine Navy. She was originally called HMS Plover during her service with the Royal Navy. Named after Apolinario Mabini, a hero of the Philippine revolution and a former prime minister, she is currently assigned with the Patrol Force of the Philippine Fleet.
Launched as the second of five patrol vessels of the Peacock class, she was originally part of the Hong Kong Squadron of the Royal Navy. The ships were built by Hall, Russell & Company in the United Kingdom and were commissioned into Royal Navy service from 1983 to 1984. The class was designed specifically for patrol duties in Hong Kong waters. As well as ‘flying the flag’ and providing a constant naval presence in region, they could undertake a number of different roles including seamanship, navigation and gunnery training and search-and-rescue duties for which they had facilities to carry divers (including a decompression chamber) and equipment to recover vessels and aircraft. They also worked with the Marine Department of the Hong Kong Police and with Customs & Excise in order to prevent the constant flow of illegal immigrants, narcotics and electronic equipment into the colony.
Out of the five ships in its class, three of them, Peacock, Plover and Starling, were left in Hong Kong until 1997. They were sold to the Philippines, and were officially turned over to the Philippine Navy on 1 August 1997 when Hong Kong was ceded back to China.
The ships under this class are characterized by a low freeboard, an Oto-Melara 76 mm gun turret located forward, large funnel amidships and a crane and rigid-hulled inflatable boat aft.
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