Laid down at the shipyard Khabarovsk Zavod, Russia with yard number 49on
4 April 1972, launched on 12 August, commissioned in the Soviet Navy in the
Northern Fleet on 31 March 1973; other sources claims respectively 15 August
1971, 12 August 1972 and 26 December. Handed over to Vietnam in December 1984. A former Russian
Petya-II class (Project 159A) corvette. With a displacement of 938
(light)-1.077 full load) tons and as dimensions 78,00 (between
perpendiculars)-81,80 x 9,20 x ,258 (hull)-5,85 (over sonar) metres. The
armament consists of 2x2-6,72cm guns, 2xquintuple 40,2cm torpedo tubes,
2-12round RBU-6000 ADW Rl, 3 depth charge racks and she could carry mines with
her.Fitted out with 2x-15,000 shp gas turbines and 1-6.000 shp diesel
allowing a speed of 29 knots. With a fuel bunker capacity of 130 tons is the
range 4.800 nautical miles using the diesel with a speed of 10 knots or 450
nautical miles at full speed.Crew numbers 88 men.
