USS Shelter
Shelter under way, 1944 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Shelter (AM-301) |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | 16 August 1943 |
| Launched | 14 November 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Patricia Whittenberg |
| Commissioned | 9 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 7 June 1946 |
| Reclassified | MSF-301, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 August 1963 |
| Fate | transferred to Republic of Vietnam Navy, 24 January 1964 |
| South Vietnam | |
| Name | RVNS Chi Linh (HQ-11) |
| Acquired | 24 January 1964 |
| Fate | escaped to the Philippines after the fall of South Vietnam, April 1975 |
| Philippines | |
| Name | RPS Datu Tupas (PS-18) |
| Namesake | Datu Tupas, a chieftain of Cebu |
| Acquired | 1975 |
| Commissioned | 5 April 1976 |
| Fate | unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Admirable-class minesweeper (in U.S. Navy service) |
| Class & type | Miguel Malvar-class corvette (in Philippine Navy service) |
| Displacement | 650 tons |
| Length | 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement | 104 |
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| Awards: | 6 Battle stars |
USS Shelter (AM-301) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. After service in the Pacific during World War II, Shelter was decommissioned in June 1946 and placed in reserve. In January 1964, she was transferred to South Vietnam for service in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as RVNS Chi Linh (HQ-11). She remained in South Vietnamese service until the collapse of that country in 1975. Chi Linh was one of several ships that fled from South Vietnam to the Philippines. She was then commissioned into the Philippine Navy in April 1976 as RPS Datu Tupas (PS-18), named after a chieftain of Cebu. The ship's fate is not reported in secondary sources.