Global InformationUSS Wachapreague information
 USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) on 20 May 1944, three days after commissioning
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Wachapreague (AVP-56) |
| Namesake | The Wachapreague Channel, an inlet on the eastern shore of Virginia |
| Builder | Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington |
| Laid down | 1 February 1943 |
| Launched | 10 July 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. E. L. Barr |
| Reclassified | Motor torpedo boat tender (AGP-8) on 2 February 1943 |
| Commissioned | 17 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 10 May 1946 |
| Honors and awards | Four battle stars for her World War II service |
| Fate | Transferred to United States Coast Guard 27 May 1946 |
| Stricken | 5 June 1946 |
| Acquired | Transferred from U.S. Coast Guard 21 June 1972 |
| Fate | Transferred to South Vietnam 21 June 1972 |
 United States | |
| Name | USCGC McCulloch |
| Namesake | Hugh McCulloch (1808–1895), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1865–1869, 1884–1885) |
| Acquired | By transfer from United States Navy 27 May 1946 |
| Commissioned | 25 November 1946 |
| Reclassified | High endurance cutter, WHEC-386, 1 May 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 21 June 1972 |
| Honors and awards | Unit Commendation April 1966 |
| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy 21 June 1972 |
 South Vietnam | |
| Name | RVNS Ngô Quyền (HQ-17) |
| Namesake | Ngô Quyền, who expelled Chinese forces in 938 to become the first ruler of an independent Vietnam |
| Acquired | 21 June 1972 |
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 Philippines | |
| Name | RPS Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) |
| Namesake | Gregorio del Pilar (1875–1899), a Filipino revolutionary general |
| Acquired | 5 April 1976 |
| Commissioned | 7 February 1977[1] |
| Renamed | BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) June 1980 |
| Decommissioned | June 1985 |
| Reclassified | PF-12, 1987 |
| Recommissioned | 1987 |
| Decommissioned | April 1990 |
| Fate | Discarded July 1990; probably scrapped[1] |
| General characteristics (seaplane tender) | |
| Class and type | Barnegat-class seaplane tender, converted during construction into a motor torpedo boat tender |
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| Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Installed power | 6,000 horsepower (4.48 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | Diesel engines, two shafts |
| Speed | 18.2 knots |
| Complement | 246 |
| Sensors and processing systems | Radar; sonar |
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| General characteristics (Coast Guard cutter) | |
| Class and type | Casco-class cutter |
| Displacement | 2,470.3 tons (full load) in 1966 |
| Length | 310 ft 0.25 in (94.4944 m) overall; 300 ft 0 in (91.44 m) between perpendiculars |
| Beam | 41 ft 0 in (12.50 m) maximum |
| Draft | 12 ft 5 in (3.78 m) at full load in 1966 |
| Installed power | 6,400 bhp (4,800 kW) |
| Propulsion | Fairbanks-Morse geared diesel engines, two shafts; 166,430 US gallons (630,000 L) of fuel |
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| Complement | 151 (10 officers, 3 warrant officers, 138 enlisted personnel) in 1966 |
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| General characteristics (South Vietnamese frigate) | |
| Class and type | Trần Quang Khải-class frigate |
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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 horsepower (4.54 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | 2 x Fairbanks Morse 38D diesel engines |
| Speed | approximately 18 knots (maximum) |
| Complement | approximately 200 |
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| General characteristics Philippine frigate | |
| Class and type | Andrés Bonifacio-class frigate |
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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 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 |
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| Aircraft carried | None permanently assigned; helipad could accommodate one MBB Bo 105 Helicopter |
| Aviation facilities | Helipad; no support facilities aboard |
USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) was a motor torpedo boat tender in commission in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, seeing service in the latter part of World War II. After her Navy decommissioning, she was in commission in the United States Coast Guard from 1946 to 1972 as the cutter USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386), later WHEC-386, the fourth ship of the U.S. Coast Guard or its predecessor, the United States Revenue Cutter Service, to bear the name. In 1972 she was transferred to South Vietnam and served in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as the frigate RVNS Ngô Quyền (HQ-17). Upon the collapse of South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, she fled to the Philippines, and she served in the Philippine Navy from 1977 to 1985 as the frigate RPS (later BRP) Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) and from 1987 to 1990 as BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-12).
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
USCGwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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