BRP Liberato Picar
BRP Liberato Picar (PC-377) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Philippines | |
| Name | Liberato Picar |
| Namesake | Capt. Liberato Picar the officer of the Offshore Patrol. Graduated from the PMA Batch 1940. |
| Operator | ; Philippine Navy |
| Ordered | 1990 |
| Builder | Trinity-Equitable Shipyards, New Orleans, USA |
| Acquired | 9 October 1991 |
| Commissioned | January 1992 |
| Reclassified | April 2016: from PG-377 to PC-377 |
| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Jose Andrada class |
| Type | Coastal Patrol Craft |
| Displacement | 56.4 tons full load |
| Length | 78 ft (24 m) |
| Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Draft | 5.8 ft (1.8 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) maximum |
| Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 4-meter rigid inflatable boat at aft |
| Complement | 12 |
| Sensors & processing systems | Raytheon AN/SPS-64(V)11 Navigation / Surface Search Radar |
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BRP Liberato Picar (PC-377) is the seventh ship of the Jose Andrada class coastal patrol boats of the Philippine Navy. It is part of the first batch of its class ordered through US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) in 1990, and was commissioned with the Philippine Navy in January 1992. It was initially designated as Fast Patrol Craft, and was numbered "DF-377", but later on was re-designated as Patrol Gunboat "PG-377". Another round of reclassification was made in April 2016, which redesignated the patrol gunboat as the coastal patrol craft PC-377.