BRP Cebu (PS-28)
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 BRP Cebu (PS-28) |
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| Career (United States of America) |  |
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| Name: | USS PCE-881 |
| Builder: | Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon |
| Laid down: | 21 August 1943 |
| Launched: | 10 November 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 31 July 1944 |
| Fate: | Transfered to the Philippines in July 1948. |
| Career (Philippines) |  |
| Name: | BRP Cebu (PS-28) |
| Namesake: | Cebu is one of the provinces of the Philippines, and is the most progressive province in the Visayas region. |
| Operator: | Philippine Navy |
| Commissioned: | July 1948 |
| Reclassified: | Patrol Corvette |
| Fate: | in service with the Philippine Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Miguel Malvar class |
| Type: | Patrol Corvette |
| Displacement: | 914 Tons (Full Load) |
| Length: | 184.5 ft (56.2 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 9.75 ft (2.97 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,200 hp |
| Propulsion: | Main: 2 x GM 12-278A diesel engines Auxiliary: 2 x GM 6-71 diesel engines with 100KW gen and 1 x GM 3-268A diesel engine with 60KW gen |
| Speed: | 16 Knots (maximum), |
| Range: | 6,600 nmi at 11 knots |
| Complement: | 85 |
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The BRP Cebu (PS-28) is one of several Miguel Malvar class Patrol Corvettes in service with the Philippine Navy. She is formerly an ex-USN Patrol Craft Escort based on the Admirable class minesweeper hull that were produced during World War II, and is now classified as a corvette protecting the vast waters of the Philippines. She is actually one of the first of her class in service with the Philippine Navy (as other ships of her class were commissioned in 1975). Along with other ex-World War II veteran ships of the Philippine Navy, she is considered as one of the oldest active fighting ships in the world today.[2]
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[edit] History
Commissioned in the US Navy as the USS PCER-881 in 1944, and was decommissioned after World War II.
She was then transferred and commissioned into the Philippine Naval Patrol (currently Philippine Navy) and was renamed RPS (now BRP) Cebu (PS-28) in July 1948. She is currently assigned with the Patrol Force of the Philippine Fleet.[3]
[edit] Technical details
Originally the ship was armed with one 3"/50 caliber dual purpose gun, three twin Bofors 40 mm guns, four 20 mm Oerlikon guns, 1 Hedgehog depth charge projector, four depth charge projectiles (K-guns) and two depth charge tracks.[4]
The same configuration applies up until the late 1980s when the Philippine Navy removed most of her old anti-submarine weapons and systems, and added four 12.7 mm general purpose machine guns, making her lighter and ideal for surface patrols, but losing her limited anti-submarine warfare capability.
The ship is powered by two GM 12-278A diesel engines, with a combined rating of around 2,200 bhp driving two propellers. The main engines can propel the 914 tons (full load) ship to a maximum speed of around 16 knots (30 km/h).[5]
There are slight difference between the BRP Cebu as compared to some of her sister ships in the Philippine Navy, since her previous configuration was as a patrol craft escort, while the others are configured as minesweepers and patrol craft escort rescue ships.
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[edit] References
- ^ Jane's Fighting Ships 2004-2005
- ^ Manokski's Armed Forces of the Philippines Order of Battle. Philippine Navy.
- ^ Philippine Fleet Official Website. Commissioned ships and crafts.
- ^ NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive. PCE-881.
- ^ DLSU N-ROTC Office. Naming and Code Designation of PN Vessels.
[edit] External links
- Philippine Defense Forum
- Philippine Navy @ Hazegray.org
- DLSU ROTC
- Opus224's Unofficial Philippine Defense Page
- NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive
[edit] See also
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