{"id":95725,"date":"2017-03-27T23:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T03:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=95725"},"modified":"2017-03-27T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T03:21:35","slug":"pn-to-decommission-all-ww-ii-ships-in-service-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/27\/pn-to-decommission-all-ww-ii-ships-in-service-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"PN to decommission all WW II ships in service by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95733\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12795448_946081665475873_5645146291890352291_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95733\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12795448_946081665475873_5645146291890352291_n.jpg\" alt=\"World War II ships in PN service include the BRP Rajah Humabon, BRP Rizal, BRP Malvar, BRP Quezon and the BRP Laguna among others. (Photo: Rajah Humabon (barkong pandigma)\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12795448_946081665475873_5645146291890352291_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12795448_946081665475873_5645146291890352291_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12795448_946081665475873_5645146291890352291_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World War II ships in PN service include the BRP Rajah Humabon, BRP Rizal, BRP Malvar, BRP Quezon and the BRP Laguna among others. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/123825901034791\">Rajah Humabon (barkong pandigma)\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u2013By 2020, all World War II vintage ships of the Philippine Navy (PN) will be retired and replaced by newly-built vessels.<\/p>\n<p>PN spokesperson Capt. Lued Lincuna in an interview with the Philippine News Agency Tuesday said retirement of these &#8220;legacy ships&#8221; is required as their officers and crewmembers are needed to man the newly-acquired warships which are expected to be delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Expected to be delivered and commissioned by then are the two missile-armed frigates, the contract of which was won by South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries, and three missile-armed multi-purpose assault craft.<\/p>\n<p>More crewmen are also needed to man the two strategic sealift vessels whose delivery are expected to be completed this May.<\/p>\n<p>Lincuna said decommissioning of the PN&#8217;s World War II era-vessels are needed as operating and maintaining them is getting more costly and expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this, they are no longer capable of competing with new vessels of similar class.<\/p>\n<p>World War II ships in PN service include the BRP Rajah Humabon, BRP Rizal, BRP Malvar, BRP Quezon and the BRP Laguna among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA\u2013By 2020, all World War II vintage ships of the Philippine Navy (PN) will be retired and replaced by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[11004,5918],"class_list":["post-95725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-philippine-navy","tag-world-war-ii","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}