MORONA B.A.P. (ABH-302) hospital ship

[aukepalmhof]

Built as a hospital ship by Servicio Industrial de Marina at Iquitos, Peru for the Peruvian Navy.
Displacement 150 tons, dim. 30 x 6 x 6m.
Powered by a diesel engine, speed 12 knots.
April 1976 commissioned as the B.A.P. MORONA (ABH-302).

She is a small hospital ship and provided medical assistance to the local population living near or on the rivers and lakes in Peru.
Managed by the Peruvian Navy.
2010 In service.

Peru 1990 230.000 sg?, scott992.

Source: Watercraft Philately and some web-sites.

[mariof]

The set of 2 stamps of Peru (in one of them the MORONA BAP) has in the stamp of 110,000 a lighthouse and 2 ships. One is the patrol boat CHANCAY PC-219 and the other the landing ship ETEN DT-144. I found these data on the blog of the Circle of Friends of Philately (Circulo de Amigos de la Filatelia) of Peru.

[aukepalmhof]

The identification of the Circulo de Amigos de la Filatelia of Perú, I doubt if they are correct, the vessel on the left of the stamp looks a much larger vessel, than the coast guard patrol vessel CHANCAY PC-219 one of the Chicama class of the BAP Navy, which is more a launch.

Of the landing vessel I have the name BAP CHIMBOTE (34) (where I got it from I lost) ex USS LST-234. The stamp is not so clear if this is correct.

Peru 1989 110000i sg1744, scott 991