.jpg) USS Bering Strait (AVP-34) on 1 October 1944
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Bering Strait |
| Namesake | The Bering Strait, connecting the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea |
| Builder | Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington |
| Laid down | 6 June 1943 |
| Launched | 15 January 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. George F. Cornwall |
| Commissioned | 19 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 21 June 1946 |
| Stricken | 26 September 1966 |
| Honors and awards | Three battle stars for World War II service |
| Fate |
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 United States | |
| Name | USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382) |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Acquired |
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| Commissioned | 14 December 1948 |
| Reclassified | High endurance cutter, WHEC-382, 1 May 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 1 January 1971[1] |
| Fate | Transferred to South Vietnam 1 January 1971 |
 South Vietnam | |
| Name | RVNS Trần Quang Khải (HQ-02) |
| Namesake | Trần Quang Khải (1241–1294), a Trần dynasty general |
| Acquired | 1 January 1971 |
| Fate |
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 Philippines | |
| Name | BRP Diego Silang (PF-9) |
| Namesake | Filipino revolutionary Diego Silang y Andaya (1730–1763) |
| Acquired |
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| Commissioned | 1980 |
| Decommissioned | June 1985 |
| Recommissioned | as BRP Diego Silang (PF-14) 1987 |
| Decommissioned | April 1990 |
| Fate | Discarded July 1990; probably scrapped |
| General characteristics (seaplane tender) | |
| Class and type | Barnegat-class small seaplane tender |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Installed power | 6,000 hp (4,500 kW) |
| Propulsion | Diesel engines, two shafts |
| Speed | 18.6 knots (34.4 km/h) |
| Complement |
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| Sensors and processing systems | Radar, sonar |
| Armament |
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| Aviation facilities | Supplies, spare parts, repairs, and berthing for one seaplane squadron; 80,000 US gallons (300,000 L) aviation fuel |
| General characteristics (Coast Guard cutter) | |
| Class and type | Casco-class cutter |
| Displacement | 2,498 tons (full load) in 1964 |
| Length |
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| Beam | 41 ft 0 in (12.50 m) maximum |
| Draft | 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) maximum in 1964 |
| Installed power | 6,400 bhp (4,800 kW) |
| Propulsion | Fairbanks-Morse geared diesel engines, two shafts; 165,625 US gallons (626,960 L) of fuel |
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| Range |
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| Complement | 151 (10 officers, 3 warrant officers, 138 enlisted personnel) in 1966 |
| Sensors and processing systems | Radars in 1966 (one each): AN/SPA-4A; AN/SPS-23; ID-445/SPS; IP-307/SPS; IP-452/SPS; Mark 34 M11; AN/SPS-29B; AN/UPA-24A; AN/UPX-1A |
| Armament | In 1966: 1 × single 5-inch (127 mm) 38-caliber Mark 12-1 gun mount; Mark 57 M4 director; Mark 4 M4 fire control radar; 2 × .50-caliber (12.7 mmm) machine guns; 1 × Mark 10-1 antisubmarine projector; 2 × Mark 32 Mod 2 torpedo launchers with 3 torpedo tubes each) |
| General characteristics (Republic of Vietnam Navy frigate) | |
| Class and type | Trần Quang Khải-class frigate |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) (overall); 300 ft 0 in (91.44 m) waterline |
| Beam | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 5 in (4.09 m) |
| Installed power | 6,080 hp (4,534 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Fairbanks Morse 38D diesel engines |
| Speed | approximately 18 knots (maximum) |
| Complement | approximately 200 |
| Armament |
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| General characteristics (Philippine Navy frigate) | |
| Class and type | Andrés Bonifacio-class frigate |
| Displacement |
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| 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 hp (4,600 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 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) |
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| Aircraft carried | None permanently assigned; helipad could accommodate one MBB Bo 105 Helicopter |
| Aviation facilities | Helipad; no support capability |
USS Bering Strait (AVP-34) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946. She tended seaplanes during World War II in the Pacific in combat areas and earned three battle stars by war's end.
After her U.S. Navy career ended, the ship served in the United States Coast Guard as the cutter USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382), later WHEC-382, from 1948 to 1971, seeing service in the Vietnam War. The Coast Guard decommissioned her at the beginning of 1971, and she was transferred to South Vietnam and served in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as the frigate RVNS Trần Quang Khải (HQ-02) until South Vietnam's collapse at the end of the Vietnam War in April 1975. She fled to the Philippines, where she was incorporated into the Philippine Navy, in which she served from 1980 to 1985 as the frigate BRP Diego Silang (PF-9) and as BRP Diego Silang (PF-14) from 1987 to 1990.
- ^ Per the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office (see http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/BeringStrait1948.asp Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine), although NavSource.org (see http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/43/4334.htm Archived 7 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine) claims the Coast Guard decommissioned Bering Strait in February 1970.
- ^ Sources do not specify which ships of the class mounted mortars or how many they mounted; see Jane's Fighting Ship 1973–1974, p. 592.
- ^ a b c Jane's Fighting Ships 1982–1983