BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8)

History
Philippines
Name	Gregorio del Pilar
Namesake	Gregorio del Pilar (1875-1899), a Filipino revolutionary general
Builder	Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington
Laid down	1 February 1943
Launched	10 July 1943
Completed	May 1944
Acquired	5 April 1976
Commissioned	7 February 1977
Decommissioned	April 1990
Renamed	BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) June 1980 - 1985; BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-12) 1987 - 1990;
Fate	Discarded July 1990; probably scrapped
Notes	Served as United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) (1944-1946);; Served as U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386), later WHEC-386, (1946-1972);; Served as South Vietnamese frigate RVNS Ngô Quyền (HQ-17) (1972-1975);
General characteristics
Class and type	Andrés Bonifacio class
Type	Frigate
Displacement	1,766 tons (standard); 2,800 tons (full load);
Length	311.65 ft (94.99 m)
Beam	41.18 ft (12.55 m)
Draft	13.66 ft (4.16 m)
Installed power	6,200 brake horsepower (4.63 megawatts)
Propulsion	2 × Fairbanks-Morse 38D diesel engines
Speed	18.2 knots (33.7 km/h; 20.9 mph) (maximum)
Range	8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 15.6 knots (28.9 km/h)
Complement	Approximately 200
Sensors and ; processing systems	Sperry SPS-53 Surface Search Radar; Westinghouse AN/SPS-29D Air Search Radar; Mk.26 Mod.1 Fire Control System; Mk.52 Mod.3 Gun Director;
Armament	1 × Mk.12 5-inch/38-caliber (127 mm) dual-purpose gun; 2 × Mk.1 Twin Bofors L/60 40 mm AA guns; 2 × Mk.3 Single Bofors L/60 40 mm AA guns; 4 × Twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon; 4 × M2 Browning .50-caliber general-purpose machine guns; 2 × 81 mm Mortars;
Aircraft carried	None permanently assigned; helipad could accommodate one MBB Bo 105 Helicopter
Aviation facilities	Helipad; no support facilities aboard

The BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) was an Andrés Bonifacio-class frigate of the Philippine Navy in commission from 1977 to 1990. She was one of six ex-United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tenders/ex-United States Coast Guard Casco-class high endurance cutters received from the United States after the Vietnam War, two of which were acquired to supply spare parts for the other four. She and her three commissioned sister ships were the largest Philippine Navy combat ships of their time.

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