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==Philippine Revolutionary Navy==
<!--This should have its own article-->The Philippine Revolutionary Navy was established during the second phase of the [[Philippine Revolution]] when General [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] formed the Revolutionary Navy. On May 1, 1898, the first ship handed by [[George Dewey|Admiral George Dewey]] to the Revolutionary Navy is a small [[pinnace (ship's boat)|pinnace]] from the [[Spanish cruiser Reina Cristina|Reina Cristina]] of [[Patricio Montojo|Admiral Patricio Montojo]], which was named ''Magdalo''.<ref name=pn>{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil.ph/history.htm |title=History of the Philippine Navy |author=Zulueta, Joselito |publisher=Philippine Navy |access-date=July 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217101436/http://www.navy.mil.ph/history.htm |archive-date=February 17, 2010 }}</ref> The Navy was initially composed of a small fleet of eight Spanish steam launches captured from the Spaniards. The ships were refitted with 9-centimeter guns. The rich, namely [[León Apacible|Leon Apacible]], Manuel Lopez and Gliceria Marella de Villavicencio, later donated five other vessels of greater tonnage, the ''Taaleño'', the ''Balayan'', the ''Bulusan'', the ''Taal'' and the ''Purísima Concepción''. The 900-ton inter-island tobacco steamer further reinforced the fleet, ''[[Compania de Filipinas]]'' (renamed as the navy flagship ''Filipinas''), steam launches purchased from China and other watercraft donated by wealthy patriots.<ref name=pn /><ref name=dlsu>{{cite web |title=THE PHILIPPINE NAVY |url=http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/offices/osa/rotc/pdf/ms2/phil-navy-b.pdf |work=dlsu.edu.ph |publisher=De La Salle University-Manila (ROTC) |access-date=July 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914074806/http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/offices/osa/rotc/pdf/ms2/phil-navy-b.pdf |archive-date=September 14, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Naval stations were later established to serve as ships' home bases in the following:<ref name=dlsu />
*Ports of Aparri
*Ports of Legaspi
*Ports of Balayan
*Ports of Calapan
*Ports of San Roque, Cavite

On September 26, 1898, Aguinaldo appointed Captain Pascual Ledesma (a [[merchant ship]] captain) as Director of the Bureau of the Navy, assisted by Captain Angel Pabie (another merchant ship captain). After passing of the [[Malolos Constitution]] the Navy was transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Relations to the Department of War (thereafter known as the Department of War and the Navy) headed by [[Mariano Trías|Gen. Mariano Trías]].<ref name=pn /><ref name=dlsu />

As the tensions between Filipinos and Americans erupted in [[Battle of Manila (1899)|1899]] and a continued blockade on naval forces by the Americans, the Philippine naval forces started to be decimated.<ref name=pn />