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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=''Booth''
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|Ship decommissioned=4 March 1946
|Ship struck=15 July 1978
|Ship fate=Loaned to [[Philippine Navy]] in 1967, sold as FMA 1978.<ref>NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive. [http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/170.htm USS Booth (DE 170)].</ref>
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|Ship country=Philippines
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Philippines|1936}}
|Ship name=''Datu Kalantiaw''
|Ship namesake=[[Kalantiaw]] was a legendary chieftain in the island of Negros who supposedly created in 1433 the first legal code known as the Code of Kalantiaw.
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|Ship class=''Datu Kalantiaw''-class [[destroyer escort]]/[[frigate]]
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|Ship displacement=1,240 tons standard, 1,620 tons full load
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* 8 × Mk.4 Oerlikon 20 mm
* 1 × Hedgehog projector Mk10 (144 rounds)
* 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors
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'''BRP ''Datu Kalantiaw'' (PS-76)''' was the first of three ex-USN {{sclass|Cannon|destroyer escort}}s that served with the [[Philippine Navy]], the others being [[BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5)|BRP ''Datu Sikatuna'' (PS-77/PF-5)]] and [[BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11)|BRP ''Rajah Humabon'' (PS-78/PF-11)]]. She was also the [[flagship]] of the [[Philippine Navy]] from 1967 to 1981.

==History==
[[File:USS Booth (DE-170) at Truk Lagoon on 27 October 1945.jpg|thumb|left|As USS ''Booth'', c. 1945]]
Commissioned in the US Navy as {{USS|Booth|DE-170}} in 1943, she was mostly assigned at the Atlantic theatre doing escort duties for UGS and GUS convoys. She served in the Pacific theater in the middle of 1945 until she was decommissioned on 14 June 1946. ''Booth'' was placed in "deferred disposal status pending possible transfer to a foreign government" on 7 July 1947, and two days later was towed back to [[Naval Station Mayport|Mayport]] by ''ATA-209'', where the former convoy escort was inactivated on 28 July 1947.<ref name=danfsbooth/>

Reconditioned by the [[Brewer Dry Dock Co.]], [[Staten Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], the ship was loaned to the Republic of the Philippines under the Military Assistance Program on 15 December 1967.<ref name=uboat>{{cite web |url=http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/1455.html |title=USS Booth (DE-170)  |publisher=uboat.net |access-date=2011-11-06}}</ref> The [[Philippine Navy]] commissioned her on that day at the [[Philadelphia Navy Yard]] as RPS ''Datu Kalantiaw'' (PS-76). On 30 June 1975, while she was still operating on loan under a foreign flag, the [[destroyer escort]] was re-designated a [[frigate]], FF-170. Subsequently, given the Philippine Navy's continuing need for the ship "in the interest of National Defense Requirements and in the furtherance of the Security Alliance between the [[Philippines]] and the United States," the U.S. Navy disposed of her by Foreign Military Sale and ''Booth'' was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 July 1978.<ref name=danfsbooth/>

In July 1980, in line with the re-classification of all Philippine Navy ships, she was renamed BRP ''Datu Kalantiaw'' (PS-76) using a localized prefix to replace the previously used English prefix.

[[File:Aerial view of the capsized Philippine frigate BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) on Calayan Island, Philippines, on 22 September 1981 (6365749).jpg|thumb|left|BRP ''Datu Kalantiaw'' foundered on the coast of [[Calayan Island]]]]
''Datu Kalantiaw'' continued to serve under the Philippine flag until [[Typhoon Clara (1981)|Typhoon Clara]] drove her aground on 21 September 1981 on the rocky northern shore of Calayan Island, in the northern Philippines. The ammunition ship {{USS|Mount Hood|AE-29|6}}, as she neared Subic Bay that day, slated for a period of upkeep, received orders to "get underway again that evening to coordinate rescue operations" at the scene of the tragedy. Consequently, ''Mount Hood'', working in concert with Philippine Navy units "in a most adverse weather environment," retrieved 49 bodies in two days of operations, and ultimately sailed for [[Manila]] to turn them over to Philippine authorities, rescuers no longer hearing tapping from inside the ship that lay on her beam ends where Clara had cast her. Soon thereafter, Rear Admiral Simeon Alejandro, Flag Officer in Command of the Philippine Navy, "made an emotional address to the officers and men of ''Mount Hood'' upon the ship's arrival on Manila," the auxiliary's historian records, "thanking each man for his part in the mission and offering the gratitude of the Philippine nation to the Captain and crew." One contemporary account called the loss of ''Datu Kalantiaw'' "one of the worst disasters in the history of the Philippine Navy," 79 of the 97-man crew perishing.<ref name=danfsbooth>''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships''. [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b8/booth-i.htm USS Booth page].</ref>

==Gallery==
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Image:BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) aground on Cayalan Island, Philippines, 22 September 1981 (6365750).jpg|An aerial view of the capsized Philippine destroyer escort BRP ''Datu Kalantiaw'' during the Military Airlift Command's Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service rescue operations.
Image:Bow of the capsized BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) on Cayalan Island, Philippines, 22 September 1981 (6365754).jpg
Image:BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) capsized on Cayalan Island, Philippines, 22 September 1981 (6371751).jpg|A view of the capsized Philippine destroyer escort BRP ''Datu Kalantiaw''
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==External links==
{{Commons category|BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76)}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080210020358/http://timawa.net/forum/index.php/topic,8648.0.html Philippine Defense Forum - RPS Datu Kalantiaw PS-76]
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/170.htm NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928112219/http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/offices/sps/rotc/pdf/ms2/namingPNships.pdf Naming and Code Designation of PN Ships]

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