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BRP Lake Caliraya (AF 81)

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Name
  
MT PNOC Lapu-Lapu

Completed
  
November 2007

Length
  
99 m

Launched
  
2007

Commissioned
  
January 2008

Beam
  
16 m

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Operator
  
PNOC Shipping and Transport Corp.

Builder
  
Taizhou Zhongxing Shipyard, China

BRP Lake Caliraya (AF-81) is a Philippine Navy small replenishment tanker. She was formerly a double-hulled oil products tanker of the now defunct Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) Shipping and Transport Corporation, and was donated to the Philippine Navy in 2014 together with 2 other tankers of the company. She is currently the only Chinese-made naval asset of the Philippine Navy.

She has a deadweight of 4,570 tons. The ship is a single product replenishment platform that has a depot-to-ship, ship-to-depot, and a ship-to-ship refueling capabilities, and with Lt. Cmdr. Mamerto A Goleta (PN) as its first commanding officer. The ship will be manned by selected officers and men of the Sealift Amphibious Force.

References

BRP Lake Caliraya (AF-81) Wikipedia