Names for the three newly-acquired landing craft heavies
(LCHs), which are slated for commissioning on June 1 has already been forwarded
to the appropriate Philippine Navy (PN) and are now waiting for approval.
This was stressed by PN spokesperson Capt. Lued Lincuna in a
message to the PNA Tuesday.
"The LCH names have already been (forwarded) to the
board and we are awaiting approval for these names," he added.
As per PN naming conventions, landing craft are named after
indigenous people.
These three LCHs were sold to the PN for friendship prices
of PHP270 million.
The LCHs are former ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
and identified as the HMAS Balikpapan (L-126), HMAS Wewak (L-130) and HMAS
Betano (L-133).
They were offloaded to Liloan, Cebu
last March 26.
The three are sisters to BRP Ivatan (formerly HMAS Tarakan)
and BRP Batak (ex-HMAS Brunei) which were commissioned into PN service last
Aug. 10.
The first two LCHs were donated by the Australian government
to the Philippines
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=888166
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