BRP Cebu (PS-28)
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 United States
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| Name: | PCE-881 |
| Builder: | Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon |
| Laid down: | 21 August 1943 |
| Launched: | 10 November 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 31 July 1944 |
| Fate: | transferred to the Philippine Navy, July 1948 |
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 Philippines
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| Name: | Cebu |
| Namesake: | Cebu |
| Acquired: | 2 July 1948 |
| Commissioned: | 2 July 1948 |
| Renamed: |
RPS Cebu (PS-28) 1965-1966 BRP Cebu (PS-28), June 1980 |
| Status: | in active service |
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| Class and type: | PCE-842-class patrol craft (in U.S. Navy service) |
| Class and type: | Miguel Malvar-class corvette (in Philippine Navy service) |
| 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 (1,600 kW) |
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| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) (maximum), |
| Range: | 6,600 nmi (12,200 km; 7,600 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 85 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Raytheon AN/SPS-64(V)11 Surface Search / Navigation Radar |
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RPS Cebu (PS-28) 1965-1966
BRP Cebu (PS-28) is a Miguel Malvar-class corvette of the Philippine Navy. She was originally built as USS PCE-881, a PCE-842-class patrol craft for the United States Navy during World War II and patrolled the Alaskan coast during that war. She was decommissioned from the U.S. Navy and transferred to the Philippine Navy in July 1948 and renamed RPS Cebu (E-28) after the Philippine province of the same name. The ship is in active service. Along with other World War II-era ships of the Philippine Navy, Cebu is considered as one of the oldest active fighting ships in the world today.
Commissioned in the US Navy as USS PCE-881 in 1944, and patrolled the coast of Alaska during World War II. The ship was decommissioned after World War II.
She was then transferred and commissioned into the Philippine Naval Patrol and was renamed RPS Cebu (E-28) in July 1948. She was carried on to the Philippine Navy in 1950, and between 1965-1966 she was renamed as RPS Cebu (PS-28) using a new classification system. Again in June 1980 she was renamed BRP Cebu (PS-28) using a new localized prefix.
In 1992 the Iloilo underwent major overhaul, weapons and radar systems refit, and upgrade of communications gear.
Cebu won the Philippine Navy "Ship of the Year" award for the year 2009.
She is currently assigned with the Patrol Force of the Philippine Fleet, under the jurisdiction of Naval Forces Western Mindanao.
After the ship's construction and the crew's training was completed in Portland Oregon, it patrolled the coast of Alaska from the Aleutian Islands to the Bering Strait during World War II. The ship’s commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander W.W. Adams.
Between 19 and 22 March 1958, then RPS Cebu participated in the first bilateral exercise between the Philippine and US Navies dubbed Exercise "Bulwark One". It took part on the 3rd phase of the exercise off the waters of Corregidor and Caballo Islands.
On 1968, during the height of the so-called 'Operation Merdeka', against the combined might of the Royal Navy and Royal Malaysian Navy ships, BRP Cebu stood her 'ground' to protect the maritime border of the Philippines and confronted the British-Malaysian warships raring to do a battle with her after learning that the Philippines is preparing to invade Sabah. The stand-off between the Philippine Navy and British-Malaysian Navy lasted for 10 tense hours giving the Philippine Navy patrol craft escort/corvette a victory for not yielding even an inch of the Philippine territory.
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