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TS Kapitan Felix Oca

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TS Kapitan Felix Oca
File:TSKFOca.jpg
The TS Kapitan Felix Oca
Career (Japan)
Name: Seiun Maru
Builder: NKK Corporation of Japan
Launched: July 1968
Decommissioned: 1997
Renamed: Kapitan Felix Oca
Fate: transferred to AMOSUP
Career (Philippines)
Name: Kapitan Felix Oca
Namesake: CAPT FELIX M OCA
Owner: Associated Marine Officers and Seamen’s Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP)
Operator:

File:Maap logo seal.jpg Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific

File:Naval Reserve Command.jpg Philippine Navy Reserve Command
Acquired: 1997
Commissioned: 1997
Homeport: Kamaya Point, Alas-asin, Mariveles, Bataan
Nickname: Kapitan Oca
Status: in active service, as of 2025
General characteristics
Type: Training Ship
Length: 144.55m
Beam: 43 ft (13 m)
Draft: 8.75 ft (2.67 m)
Installed power: Hitachi 2BF-110 750 VT-B&W Diesel Engine
Propulsion: Water Tube 1 unit single drum
Speed: 16.72kts
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 6 x Motorized Lifeboats
Troops: 247 troops
Complement: 208 Merchant Marine Officers, Merchant Marine Sailors, and Maritime Cadets
Crew: 28 Merchant Mariners
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 INMARSAT
  • 2 VHF WITH DSC (DIGITAL SELECTIVE *CALLING) SKANTI
  • 1 SCANSAT WITH MF/HF SSB/TLX (SKANTI)
  • 1 EPIRB SATFIND-406 (USA)
  • 1 NAVTEX (JRC)
  • 2 SART
  • 1 GMDSS (SKANTI)
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • 2 radars (RAYCAS)
  • 1 GPS (MAGNAVOX)
  • 1 Gyro (HOKUSHIN)
  • 1 Autopilot (HOKUSHIN)
  • 1 Echo Sounder (NEC)
  • 2 ARPAs (TOKIMEC & RAYTHEON)
  • 1 Weather Facsimile (JRC)
  • 1 SPEED LOG (HOKUSHIN)
  • 1 LORAN
    • Armament: None
    Armour: None
    Aircraft carried: None
    Aviation facilities: flight deck

    TS Kapitan Felix Oca is a Training Ship of the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific. It was acquired by AMOSUP in 1997 and transferred operational control to MAAP. It was designated on September 24, 1999 as an Affiliated Naval Reserve Ship of the Philippine Navy Reserve Command.[1]

    Construction and design[]

    The ship was originally constructed as a Training Ship for mariners and maritime cadets of the Inter Pacific Lines Co. Ltd. of Japan. Construction started in July 1968 and was christened as the TS Seuin Maru.[1]

    Operational History[]

    TF Damayan[]

    The TS Kapitan Felix Oca was activated by the Philippine Navy Reserve Command as part of an international relief coalition to assist the provinces affected by Typhoon Haiyan. They were tasked help ferry relief goods and rescue personnel to typhoon ravaged areas of Leyte after TS Haiyan left the province in ruins in Novermber of 2013.[2]

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    References[]

    Citations
    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.maap.edu.ph/New%20Academics/NewTrainingShip.html
    2. ↑ http://www.norway.ph/news/Events/Norwegian-Training-Center-Manila-has-chartered-a-vessel-that-will-sail-to-Tacloban-with-relief-goods/
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