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Ill base my first ships on the Italian Guiseppe Garibaldi class armored cruisers, which was exported by Italy to 3 countries. They were the first ships commissioned to the Philippine Navy.

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BRP La Solidaridad
BRP Noli Me Tangere
BRP El Filibusterismo

The La Solidaridad class is a series of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Philippine Navy. They were named after various Filipino literary works that fueled the 1898 revolution.
During the final phases of the Revolution, supplanted by money gained from raiding Spanish merchant ships in Manila Bay, the Revolutionary Navy ordered 3 units of battleships from Great Britain. Delivery of the ships were delayed by the Spanish government, and the ships arrived at Manila in early 1899, after the success of the revolution. They were commissioned to the newly-established Philippine Navy.
The delivery of the La Solidaridad, sailed by a British crew, started in 1898, but was stopped following a request from the Spanish who were in the middle of a conflict with the Philippines which culminated with the 1898 revolution. BRP La Solidaridad was a very powerful ship and would have drastically altered the balance of power in Philippines' favor had it and her sister ship been available at the time of the conflict.
After peace was concluded on 1899, and La Solidaridad, Noli me Tangere, and El Filibusterismo and the Guiseppe Garibaldi class of cruisers ordered from Italy finally received permission to transit the Suez Canal under an Anglo-Italian merchant flag and arrived in Manila on March 1899.
They served as the backbone of the Navy in it's early years and they were deployed to the German Pacific colonies during World War 1. In accordance to the 1921 Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty, the ships were decommissioned and BRP La Solidaridad was laid up as a museum ship at Cavite, while her other sisterships were scrapped. BRP La Solidaridad was devastated by Japanese planes in World War 2 and was sank at Cavite Naval Yard. The ship's hulk was salvaged in 1948 and was transferred in the National Museum.

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"Give me 10,000 Filipinos and I shall conquer the whole world!"
-Gen. Douglas McArthur
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Nice choice of a armoured cruiser and nice back up history.Seems someone follows my steps.

The problem was the 10in guns.Real Hellas had also one ship that exceed the 1921 Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty,the armoured cruiser Averoff. But we reclassified it as "battleship" and the Averoff even fight in WW2 and is now a museum ship.

P.S A amphibious landing ship like yours is indeed useful in a country were typhoons are often.

Thanks odysseus...

The ships are pre-dreadnoughts and are not suitable for future battles, and they were replaced with the larger superdreadnoughts in the 1930s. The 1921 Naval Disarmament Treaty greatly reduced the strength of the Navy but during the 1930s, the Navy began a massive rearmament with heavy cruisers and destroyers.

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"Give me 10,000 Filipinos and I shall conquer the whole world!"
-Gen. Douglas McArthur
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BRP Tejeros
BRP Tanza
BRP Kawit
BRP Noveleta

In 1898, in order to increase their capabilities against the Spanish naval supremacy in the Philippines, the Revolutionary Navy requested help from the Italian government. Help came in form of BRP Tejeros, a Giuseppe-Garibaldi class armored cruiser whose construction was personally paid by the Italian prime minister Luigi Pelloux, a close friend of both Jose Rizal and Emilio Aguinaldo.
The delivery of the ship was halted by the Spanish government in 1898 and the ship, together with 2 other battleships ordered from Great Britain, was allowed to cross the Suez Canal in 1899, after peace was concluded. They arrived on Manila on 1899 and was commissioned to the newly established Philippine Navy. The ship's homeport is Corregidor.
US naval threats in 1902 forced the Philippines to purchase 3 more ships from Italy, which arrived on 1905. The ships were deployed to Hongkong, Nagasaki, Busan, and Vladivostok together with the 2 pre-dreadnoughts as a show of force against US.
The ships were deployed to Bismarck Archipelago during World War 1 and served the Navy throughout the Years of Depression, when the ships were mothballed due to increasing maintaining costs because of their age. They were reactivated after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and fought relentlessly against the invading Japanese forces. The remaining forces of the Philippine Navy fled to Corregidor, and the Japanese Navy attacked seaward. The ships were damaged by cannon fires and later bombs, 2 ships were sank by May 9, 1942, while the other two successfully fled to Australia. The remaining ships fought alongside the US Navy during the final phases of the War, and they returned to Manila in 1945. Both ships received battle gold stars and other honors and were decommissioned in 1948. BRP Tanza was laid up in 1955 as a museum ship.

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"Give me 10,000 Filipinos and I shall conquer the whole world!"
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BRP Jose Rizal
BRP Andres Bonifacio

The Jose Rizal class were a pair of super-dreadnought battleships built for the Philippine Navy during World War I. Both patrolled briefly off the coast of China before being placed in reserve at the war's end. Named Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio after important figures in Philippine history, they were Philippines counter to Japanese Fusō-class battleships.
In 1905, Japan scrapped a previous naval building program in favor of an order that included three warships of the new 'dreadnought' type, despite signs that such an action would spark an East Asian naval arms race. To counter this acquisition by a major rival, Philippines began seeking bids for at least two dreadnoughts in 1908. Over the next two years, multiple shipbuilders from five countries vied for the contracts, complemented by efforts from their respective governments. Philippines was able to play this hyper-competitive environment to its own advantage by rejecting all of the initial proposals and calling for new ones that required the best aspects of each. They then repeated this process, despite complaints from shipbuilders that their trade secrets were being given away. The contracts were awarded to the lowest bidder, Portsmouth Dockyard, in early 1912. This move shocked the other European bidders, but could largely be explained by the British steel trust's ability to produce steel at a much lower cost than any other country.
During their construction, the Filipino battleships were frequently subject of rumors involving their sale to a foreign country, especially after the beginning of the First World War. Under diplomatic pressure not to sell, Philippines kept the two ships. Throughout their careers, Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio were based in Corregidor and served principally as training ships and diplomatic envoys. They were modernized in Great Britain in 1935-1936. By World War II, the class were showing their age, and the battleship was becoming increasingly obsolescent in the face of air power. The two modernized ships fought against the Japanese forces in Battle of Lingayen Gulf, successfully sinking 4 Japanese cruisers and disabling a battleship, but both units recieved considerable damages that forced them to escape to Australia. There, the ships recieved another upgrades that included modern radars in each ship's arsenal. They fought alongside the US Navy in the entire Pacific Campaign, and they successfully anchored to their homeland in 1945.


Both ships were strucked from the Naval Register in 1957 and were scrapped thereafter.

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"Give me 10,000 Filipinos and I shall conquer the whole world!"
-Gen. Douglas McArthur
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You made my day with the Jose Rizal Class! A real beauty of a ship.

Only the plane is missing and some specs.

Ahahaha....thanks a lot mate!!!I did not expect that...hahaha

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BRP Pampangga
BRP Tarlac
BRP Laguna
BRP Batangas
BRP Maynila
BRP Cavite
BRP Nueva Ecija
BRP Bulacan

The 1921 Naval Disarmament Treaty reduced the naval strength of the Philippines after the decommissioning of 3 pre-dreadnoughts, forcing the Philippine Navy to find a small, lightweight, swift yet powerful ships that can sink even the most powerful ships of the time. The answer is the destroyer, small ship capable of attacking surface targets as well as planes and submarines that the Japanese Navy is plentiful of.
In 1923, the Navy ordered 13 destroyers from Great Britain and all units were delivered by 1929. The ships, named after the first 8 provinces that joined the Revolution, is a 1st-rate destroyer designed primarily for anti-submarine and anti-shipping purposes. Equipped with powerful engines, these vessels were capable of high speeds and were intended as escorts for the projected class of battlecruisers, which were ultimately never built. The new destroyers were fast and powerful ships that were equal to any of their foreign contemporaries.
Commissioned during the 1920s, the Pampangga-class ships were the mainstay of the Philippine Navy destroyer squadrons throughout the 1930s until gradually replaced by more advanced types.
In 1938, Nueva Ecija was disarmed, but in 1941 with the war fast approaching she remounted her guns. Bulacan and Tarlac were derated to patrol boats in 1939 and 1940. In 1939 Laguna was used as an aircraft rescue ship at Corregidor Naval Air Station, but reverted to her original role at the outbreak of the war. The ships fought against the invading Japanese forces but no ship survived the war, with each ship either torpedoed or bombed by the Japanese forces.

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"Give me 10,000 Filipinos and I shall conquer the whole world!"
-Gen. Douglas McArthur
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BRP General Antonio Luna
BRP Ladislao Diwa
BRP Teodoro Plata
BRP Deodato Arellano
BRP Valentín Díaz
BRP José Dizon
BRP Ramon Avacena
BRP Licerio Geronimo
BRP Mariano Llanera
BRP Vicente Lukban

The General Antonio Luna-class destroyers were a class of US-built 10 1,950-ton destroyers in the Philippine Navy.
The first four ships were laid down in 1933 by New York Shipbuilding and the next four in 1934 at Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Quincy, Massachusetts. All were commissioned in 1936.
They were built in response to the large destroyers that the Japanese Navy was building at the time, and were initially leaders of destroyer flotillas. They were originally built with eight Mk 12 5 inch/38 caliber (127 mm) guns in four Mark 22 Single Purpose (surface action only) twin mounts and two torpedo tubes amidships. This proved to be top heavy, and planes were becoming a greater threat, so during the war, mounts 51 and 54 were replaced with Dual Purpose (surface action and air action) twin mounts, and more smaller anti-aircraft guns were installed in place of one of the 2 original torpedo tubes.
The ships proved their worth during the initial waves of Japanese attacks on the Philippines in which they successfully downed approximately 18 Japanese planes daily, a big toll for the Japanese. When the Japanese decided to concentrate more planes on the Philippines, the ships were unable to stop the Japanese attacks, and were forced to escape to Australia. The ships fought with the US Navy in the final stages of the War. The ships were decommissioned in 1959, all were sold for scrap.

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"Give me 10,000 Filipinos and I shall conquer the whole world!"
-Gen. Douglas McArthur
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