Defense of the Republic of the Philippines

Designed to carry 200 troops. LS-53 originally transferred to France in 1951 and others in 1953 for use in Indochina; subsequently retransferred in 1956 to South VietNam. All acquired by the Philippines 17 November 1975. Ex-US LSIL 476 transferred for spares at same time.



RPS Marinduque (LS-36)
RPS Sorsogon (LS-37)
RPS Camarines Norte (LS-52)
RPS Misamis Oriental (LS-53)

photo courtesy of owner



shown is the stern of BRP Francisco Dagohoy PF-10 while in Subic
date unknown

started with PS-76, re-do PF-4's tri-mast, also tried to finish the bridge

PF-5 was PF-77 before re-numbering
shown here in Jane's fighting ships 84-85 edition

finally after 2 months, i got the destroyer escort kits, it's a Pit-road re-release, contains 3 hulls, perfect combo to built PS-76, PF-5, and PF-11



the 3 DE's together with D-66 on left and PF-4 on right



i got so excited i started with PS-76 almost right away
have to re-do PF-4's tri-mast, i used a larger rod before, started the bridge too
the Pit-road DE kits have extra 5 inch guns, and i'm going to use them on the Bonifacio class frigates

another newspaper clip: April, 2, 1988



photo credits: Bob Dungo

newspaper clip from 1968

PF-8 was later re-numbered PF-12



she was caught on background of a photo that came out on a newspaper article.
photo courtesy of Jess Yuson