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USS Camp
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_off_the_Boston_Naval_Shipyard,_Massachusetts_(USA),_on_25_April_1945_(NH_91559).jpg) USS Camp after refit with two 5"/38cal guns
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Namesake | Jack Hill Camp |
| Builder | Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas |
| Laid down | 27 January 1943 |
| Launched | 16 April 1943 |
| Commissioned | 16 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 1 May 1946 |
| Reclassified | DER-251, 21 October 1955 |
| Stricken | 30 December 1975 |
| Fate | Transferred to South Vietnam, 13 February 1971 |
 South Vietnam | |
| Name | RVNS Tran Hung Dao (HQ-1) |
| Namesake | Tran Hung Dao |
| Acquired | 13 February 1971 |
| Fate | Escaped to the Philippines and transferred to the Philippine Navy, 5 April 1976 |
 Philippines | |
| Name | RPS (later BRP) Rajah Lakandula (PF-4) |
| Acquired | 5 April 1976 |
| Commissioned | 27 July 1976 |
| Decommissioned | 1988 |
| Stricken | 1988 |
| Status | Was in service in 1999 as a barracks ship, probably sold as scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Edsall-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 8 officers, 201 enlisted |
| Armament |
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USS Camp (DE-251) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
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