The BRP Rajah Humabon
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy will no longer turn BRP Rajah Humabon, which was decommissioned in 2018, into a museum.
Humabon was found partly submerged, along with World War II-era vessels BRP Cebu and BRP Sultan Kudarat, both decommissioned in 2019, in a naval shipyard in Cavite City.
Humabon, one of the three remaining Cannon-class destroyer escorts in the world, served the Navy for almost four decades, after being with US and Japanese navies for more than 20 years.
It served as the Navy’s flagship when it was commissioned in 1980 until the arrival of Del Pilar-class warships from the US in 2011.
The Navy said the decommissioned vessels temporarily berthed at the Navy’s graveyard dock in Sangley Point in Cavite, were currently undergoing a disposal process.