Malvar-class corvette
Bow number Ship name Launched Commissioned Service Status
PS-18 BRP Datu Tupas 14 November 1943 November 1975 Patrol Force Fate unknown
PS-19 BRP Miguel Malvar 1 March 1944 November 1975 Offshore Combat Force Active
PS-20 BRP Magat Salamat 19 March 1944 November 1975 Offshore Combat Force Active
PS-22 BRP Sultan Kudarat 18 May 1943 November 1975 Offshore Combat Force Decommissioned on 5 July 2019
PS-23 BRP Datu Marikudo 18 March 1944 5 April 1976 Patrol Force Decommissioned 9 December 2010 [ 1 ] . Sold for scrap while her equipment stripped as spare part
PS-28 BRP Cebu 10 November 1943 July 1948 Offshore Combat Force Decommissioned on 1 October 2019
PS-29 BRP Negros Occidental 24 February 1944 July 1948 Patrol Force Decommissioned 9 December 2010 [ 2 ] . Sold for scrap while her equipment were stripped as spare part
PS-30 RPS Leyte 20 June 1944 July 1948 Patrol Force Grounded and lost in 1978
PS-31 BRP Pangasinan 24 April 1943 July 1948 Offshore Combat Force Active
PS-32 BRP Iloilo 3 August 1943 July 1948 Offshore Combat Force Decommissioned September 2016 . Her weapons , machinery and electronics were striped down for spare parts , hull awaiting disposal
PS-33 RPS Samar 20 November 1943 24 May 1948 Patrol Force Decommssioned in the 1980s
Ships in class
The Malvar class is a ship class of patrol corvettes of the Philippine Navy, and are currently its oldest class of corvettes. These ships were formerly used by the US Navy as s, and and , which were both based on the Admirable-class hull. In the Philippine Navy, the vessels have undergone upgrades and modifications, and have been re-categorized as corvettes. One ship, the former USN was supposedly a member of this class but was converted into a non-combatant Presidential Yacht by the Philippine Navy in 1948 as RPS Pag-asa (APO-21) (later on renamed as RPS Santa Maria, and as RPS/BRP Mount Samat)