TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calairo, Emmanuel Franco.
TI  - Philippine Coast Guard: : a historical account of a maritime enforcement agency, 1901-2008
SN  - 978-971-94141-0-0
AV  - VA 70.P6 .C125 2008
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Manila
PB  - Philippine Coast Guard
KW  - Philippine Navy
N1  - A project of the Philippine Coast Guard, South Harbor, Manila; Includes bibliography
N2  - This book relates how the Philippine Coast Guard evolved from a simple coast watching system from the early Spanish period and during the 16th up to the 19th  century, to the more  commercially inclined  Bureau of Coast Guard  and Transfortation in the early 1900's, to the devolution of various coast guard functions  to other government agencies  until the 1940's , to its resurrection as a major unit of Philippine Navy  in 1967 until 1997, and to its eventual  separation from the Department of National Defense/Philippine Navy and its transfer to the Department of Transportation and communications in 1998
ER  -