Posted on 06/18/2011 6:34:06 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
BRP Rajah Humabon
They need to update their navy big time.
Sea Shepherd has a bigger badder navy.
Looks like an old destroyer escort.Those things were never designed to last this long,they were built quick and cheap.
Pula listo!
Want to know more about the technology that drives the Philippine Navy? Technograph recently spoke to a couple of officers from the armed service. What emerged was a picture of hilariously deplorable conditions.
BRP stands for Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas or Ship of the Republic of the Philippines in English
As related by our sources, the flagship of the Philippine Navy is the BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11), an escort destroyer of the Cannon class (pictured above) that was commissioned in the US way back in 1943. A visiting American naval officer actually said that her sister ship was already on display in a museum! Obviously, the Rajah Humabons technology was state-of-the-art during World War II. Now however, our seamen have to participate in naval exercises where they have to rely on manual fire control, compared to the computer-driven mechanisms of their American and Malaysian counterparts.
Hueybravo.net has more information on the BRP Rajah Humabon, and its history as the USS Atherton and JMSDF Hatsushi.
On said gunnery exercise, firing the guns would actually rattle the rust off the bulkheads. And in one particularly notable case, caused both electric generators of the ship to fail, leading to a blackout. Modern amenities are available, such as air-conditioning. The problem is that the luxury only reaches certain parts of the ship, and has a faulty control system. One of the officers had to sleep in a room that was frosting from the extreme cold. On another ship, the budget for food is a mere Php 40 ($1) per head for all three meals. Most alarming was the story that sailing through a typhoon was a near-death experience.
http://technogra.ph/2008/02/29/the-technology-of-the-philippine-navy/
You are right.
She begain life the USS Atherton (DE-169) in 1943, she was mostly assigned at the Atlantic theatre doing patrols and anti-submarine missions. She was credited of having destroyed a German U-boat, the U-853, in 9 May 1945. She served in the Pacific theatre in the middle of 1945 until she was decommissioned and put on reserves on 10 December 1945. With her service during World War II, she was awarded with one battle star.
Why do I get the feeling the leadership in Manila is displaying guts against China because there’s any number of treaties we signed with them ensuring we will come to their defense in war time? Must be nice to show courage when the US will be picking up the tab.
Looks like it has been upgraded with Direct TV and the depth charges have been taken off.
I bet the sight of that thing will put the fear of God in the Chinese. Especially when the Chinese have to tow it back to Manila for them.
Sending a WWII era vessel into a modern hostile area did not work out too well for the Argentinian Navy circa 1982 when they sent the Admiral Belgramo, a relic WWII US cruiser, to the Falklin Island crusade. I suspect this ship would have similar results in any battle with a modern navy.
The World War II Destroyer Escort Slater (DE 766) is berthed as a Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
in Albany NY. After WW II it was given to the Greeks who transferred it back in 1991.
Don’t think I would want to confront the CHiComs with a DE from WW II.
I don’t think that those old 3”/50cals would be of much use...
I don’t seen the torpedoes, either. Those 3 inch guns will really scare the PLAN
Gosh, must be some value to a US defensive umbrella after all. If we’re going to continue protecting other nation’s sovereignty, they should be paying into an “insurance” pool.
Other than that, ‘eff ‘em, they don’t like us much anyway.
On second thought, nevermind; let ‘em learn to speak Mandarin.
The 378 footer USCGC Hamilton homeported in Alameda California just last week was decommissioned and given to the Phillipines, FYI.
Re the USS Atherton..getting a U-boat on 9 May 1945..was that the last one sunk in the war?
They took the sails down for the photo.
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