page_title: Cannon-class destroyer escort
section_title: Transferred to the Philippines
hierarchical_section_title: Cannon-class destroyer escort / Postwar dispersal / Transferred to the Philippines
caption_attribution_description: English: 090421-N-9950J-062 SOUTH CHINA SEA (April 21, 2009) The Armed Forces of the Philippines Navy destroyer escort BRP Rajah Humabon (PF 11) steams ahead during an exercise with the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) and the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), as part of exercise Balikatan 2009 (BK09).
context_page_description: The Cannon class was a class of destroyer escorts built by the United States primarily for ocean antisubmarine warfare escort service during World War II. The lead ship, USS Cannon, was commissioned on 26 September 1943 at Wilmington, Delaware. Of the 116 ships ordered, 44 were cancelled and six were commissioned directly into the Free French Forces. Destroyer escorts were regular companions escorting the vulnerable cargo ships.
  With the decommissioning of the Philippine Navy's BRP Rajah Humabon in March 2018; HTMS Pin Klao of the Royal Thai Navy is the only ship of the class in commission.
context_section_description: USS Amick (DE-168) as BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5); scrapped in 1989
  USS Atherton (DE-169) as BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11); retired in 2018
  USS Booth (DE-170) as BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76); sunk during a typhoon in 1981
  USS Muir (DE-770)—cannibalized for parts
  USS Sutton (DE-771)—cannibalized for parts
caption: BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11) of the Philippine Navy
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