BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5) [SEP] vessel class
BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5)
The BRP "Datu Sikatuna" (PF-5) was one of the three ex-USN s that served with the Philippine Navy, the others being and .
History.
Commissioned in the US Navy as the in 1943, she was mostly assigned at the Atlantic theatre doing escort duties for transatlantic convoys. She served in the Pacific theatre in the middle of 1945, and received the unconditional surrender of all Japanese forces in the northern Palaus, which was received by the Americans in the
these upgrades, she was formally commissioned to the Philippine Navy in 1980, and formed the backbone of the Philippine Fleet together with 2 of her sister ships and other ex-US Navy destroyer escorts. She was reclassified as BRP "Datu Sikatuna" (PF-5) in July 1980, now using the "BRP" ship naming standard and carrying a "Frigate" classification, and served until 1989, when she was decommissioned and scrapped. She became a parts hulk for the remaining ship of her class, the BRP "Rajah