She was carried on to the Philippine Navy in 1951, and in the 1960s she was renamed as RPS Cebu (PS-28) using a new ship naming and classification system.

[7] In 1992 the ship underwent major overhaul, weapons and radar systems refit, and upgrade of communications gear.

[11] After the ship's construction and the crew's training was completed in Portland Oregon, it patrolled the coast of Alaska from the Aleutian Islands to the Bering Strait during World War II.

[13] On 1968, during the height of the so-called 'Operation Merdeka', against the combined might of the Royal Navy and Royal Malaysian Navy ships, BRP Cebu stood her 'ground' to protect the maritime border of the Philippines and confronted the British-Malaysian warships raring to do a battle with her after learning that the Philippines is preparing to invade Sabah.

[17] In the latter part of May 2018, the BRP Cebu held a meeting with the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) ship, the KD Sri Tiga at the maritime border between Malaysia and the Philippines to exchange intelligence information as part of the Trilateral Maritime Patrol Programme in the Eastern Security Zone (Esszone) of Sabah.

During its overhaul and refit in 1992,[5] the Philippine Navy removed her old anti-submarine weapons and systems, and made some changes in the armament set-up.

The ship is powered by two GM 12-278A diesel engines, with a combined rating of around 2,200 bhp (1,600 kW) driving two propellers.

The main engines can propel the 914 tons (full load) ship to a maximum speed of around 16 knots (30 km/h).