BRP Jose Artiago Jr (PG-844)

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Vintage Navy ships taken off the shelf
By: Victor Reyes

Malaya, Friday, December 10, 2010

http://navytoday.blogspot.com/2010/12/vintage-navy-ships-taken-off-shelf.html

THE Navy yesterday decommissioned three vintage ships.

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Parts of these vessels have already been removed and used for other Navy ships.

"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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The gunboat (PG 844 or BRP Jose Artiaga) saw action with the Philippine Navy in 1993 after their donation by South Korea. It is about 30 years old.

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