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Octopus is a 126-metre (413 ft) megayacht built for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. She is one of the world's largest yachts. Launched in 2003 at a cost of $200 million, [1] Octopus is a private vessel that has been loaned out for exploration projects, scientific research and rescue missions. [2]
Aquino administration (2010-2016) The 15th president of the Philippines, Benigno S. Aquino III, rechristened the presidential yacht with its old name, the BRP Ang Pangulo (AT-25). On 14 December 2011, the yacht joined the fleet in a ceremony, together with the newly refurbished Hamilton-class cutter named the BRP Gregorio del Pilar.
Boat terminologies were used for ranks, place names, and even personal names, even in island interiors. [13] [22] Among the Sama-Bajau people of the southern Philippines, various types of bangka like the djenging and the lepa served as houseboats of nuclear families and often sail together in clan flotillas. [24]
A balangay, or barangay, is a type of lashed-lug boat built by joining planks edge-to-edge using pins, dowels, and fiber lashings. They are found throughout the Philippines and were used largely as trading ships up until the colonial era.
PT-105, an 80' Elco boat, under way. A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II.It was small, fast, and inexpensive to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the war by ineffective torpedoes, limited armament, and comparatively fragile construction that limited some of the variants ...
Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island ( Tagalog: Pulo ng El Fraile ), is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. Nicknamed a "concrete battleship", [ 1] the reinforced concrete sea fort, shaped like a battleship, was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the ...
Vinta. The vinta is a traditional outrigger boat from the Philippine island of Mindanao. The boats are made by Sama-Bajau, Tausug and Yakan peoples living in the Sulu Archipelago, [ 2] Zamboanga peninsula, and southern Mindanao. Vinta are characterized by their colorful rectangular lug sails ( bukay) and bifurcated prows and sterns, which ...
This list of motor yachts by length, is a table of the world's longest active superyachts, with an overall length of at least 75 metres (246 ft) and up. These boats are also known as "megayachts", "gigayachts" and even "terayachts", usually depending on length. [ 1][ 2] It has been generally accepted by naval architects and industry executives ...