BRP Ang Pangulo (AT-25)
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| Name: | Ang Pangulo |
| Namesake: | Ang Pangulo is the Filipino equivalent of "The President". |
| Operator: | Philippine Navy |
| Builder: | Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries |
| Cost: | US$ 3,000,000 |
| Laid down: | July 16, 1960 |
| Launched: | October 16, 1960 |
| Commissioned: | March 7, 1960 |
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| Status: | in active service |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Ang Pangulo class |
| Type: | Presidential yacht |
| Displacement: | 2,200 Tons (Full Load) |
| Length: | 254 ft (77 m) |
| Beam: | 42.7 ft (13.0 m) (folded) |
| Draft: | 19.5 ft (5.9 m) |
| Installed power: | 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Mitsui-Burmeister & Wain DE642/VBF75 |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (maximum), 15 knots (sustained) |
| Range: | 6,900 nmi (12,800 km; 7,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Capacity: | 44 yacht guests |
| Crew: | 81 crew members |
| Aviation facilities: | Helipad at aft deck |
BRP Ang Pangulo (AT-25) is a presidential yacht and was acquired by the Philippine government in 1959. The yacht was first used by President Carlos P. Garcia for entertaining and over the years the yacht has known many famous guests including British ballerina Margot Fonteyn, actress Brooke Shields, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, concert pianist Van Cliburn and Cristina Ford, former wife of Henry Ford II, who was once chairman of Ford Motor Co.
RPS Lapu-Lapu (PY-77) was built in Japan as part of that country’s war reparations to the Philippines. At the initiative of President Carlos P. Garcia, Filipino naval engineers specifically designed the vessel for use as a presidential yacht. It was christened with its original name of RPS Lapu-Lapu, named after the Visayan datu, Lapu-Lapu, and commissioned into the Philippine Navy on March 7, 1959 as its flagship, a status it held until December 1961.
President Diosdado Macapagal in the following year ordered its conversion to a naval troop transport, renaming it RPS Roxas after the fifth President of the Philippines, Manuel Roxas, in rites led by his widow, Trinidad Roxas. This was the first time a navy ship had been named in honor of a president.
Later the vessel was renamed RPS The President and then BRP Ang Pangulo by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who restored its use as the presidential yacht, a status it has retained in all succeeding presidencies to the present day.
President Diosdado Macapagal himself used another, older, presidential yacht, the RPS Santa Maria, which he renamed RPS Pag-Asa, the name by which it had also been called a decade earlier under President Ramon Magsaysay. This ship was later decommissioned by the Navy in 1993.
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