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.
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