Vintage Navy ships taken off the shelfBy: Victor Reyes
Malaya, Friday, December 10, 2010
http://navytoday.blogspot.com/2010/12/vintage-navy-ships-taken-off-shelf.htmlTHE Navy yesterday decommissioned three vintage ships.
It is coordinating with the donors of the two patrol ships and a patrol gunboat prior to selling these as scrap metal.
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"If we needed spares, we just goet them from these (now decommissioned ships)," said Capt. Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, Navy spokesman.
"They are beyond economic repair. It will entail a lot of cost if they are going to be revived so we preferred to remove them from the inventory of the Philippine Navy," said Bacordo.
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He said the two patrol ships,
PS 29 or BRP Negros Occidental and PS 23 or BRP Datu Marikudo, were donated by the US after the World War II and are 67 years old.
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