BRP Cebu

History
United States
NamePCE-881
BuilderAlbina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon
Laid down21 August 1943
Launched10 November 1943
Commissioned31 July 1944
Fatetransferred to the Philippine Navy, July 1948
History
Philippines
NameCebu
NamesakeCebu
Acquired2 July 1948
Commissioned2 July 1948
Decommissioned1 October 2019
Renamed
  • RPS Cebu (PS-28) 1965
  • BRP Cebu (PS-28) June 1980
FateSeen capsized on October 30, 2022[1]
General characteristics
Class and type
Type
Displacement914 tons (full load)
Length184.5 ft (56.2 m)
Beam33 ft (10 m)
Draft9.4 ft (2.9 m) [2]
Installed power
  • [3]
  • 2 × GM6-71 diesel engines with 100KW gen
  • 1 × GM3-268A diesel engine with 60KW gen
Propulsion
  • 2 × GM12-278A diesel engines [3] with a combined 2,200 hp (1,600 kW)
  • (previous) 2 × GM12-567ATL diesel engines
  • (original) 2 × Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines
Speed
  • from last engine replacement: 1.6MW power[3]
  • 16 knots max
  • 14 knots sustained
  • 12 knots economy
  • from original engines or 1st replacement or both 15.7 knots (29.1 km/h; 18.1 mph) max [2]
Range6,600 nmi (12,200 km; 7,600 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement85
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Raytheon AN/SPS-64(V)11 navigation & surface search radar system [4]
  • SATCOM, GPS
  • Removed Sensors (during the 1992-1993 overhaul & refit)[5][4]
  • Sonar system
  • SPS-21D surface search radar
  • RCA SPN-18 navigation radar
Armament
  • Config til her retirement[4][3]
  • SuW-AAW
  • 1 × 76mm L/50 (3 inch 50 calibres Long) dual-purpose cannon on a Mk.26 mount
  • 3 × Bofors 40mm L/60 single-barrel AA rapid-fire cannons
  • 4 × Mk.10 Oerlikon 20 mm AA rapid-fire cannons
  • 4 × M2 Browning 50caliber (12.7mm) heavy machine guns
  • 30cal medium machine guns
  • Removed Armaments (either during the 1992-1993 overhaul & refit [5]) or during 1980's [4]):
  • ASW
  • 1 × Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar projector
  • 4 × K-gun depth charge projectors
  • 2 × depth charge racks
  • SuW-AAW
  • 3 × twin-barrel Mk.1 Bofors 40mm AA cannons

BRP Cebu (PS-28) was 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 was decommissioned on 1 October 2019. Along with other World War II-era ships of the Philippine Navy, Cebu was considered one of the world's oldest fighting ships during her active service.[6]

  1. ^ "Already decommissioned: PH Navy clarifies photos of half-submerged vessels". ABS-CBN News.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference USS_PCE-881Specs_NavSourceOnline was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference PHNavyAssetsDesignation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c d GlobalSecurity.org PS Miguel Malvar Class Archived 22 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Janes0405 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Manokski's Armed Forces of the Philippines Order of Battle. Philippine Navy Archived 12 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine.