(CNN) -- The Guardian is gone. What was left of the former U.S. Navy minesweeper was lifted off a Philippine reef on Saturday. "The stern was lifted around 1:50 p.m.," Philippine Coast Guard Palawan District head Commodore Enrico Efren Evangelista told the state-run Philippine News Agency. It was the last of the four sections of the wood and fiberglass hull the USS Guardian had been cut into in the effort to remove it from where it ran aground on January 17. Bow cut from U.S. ship The 250-ton stern segment was placed aboard a waiting barge. "As the hull has been removed, the team is now shifting their effort to collecting minor debris that remains on the reef," the head of the salvage operation, Navy Capt. Mark Matthews, said in a statement.
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The grounded U.S. Navy minesweeper was removed from a Philippine reef Saturday
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The Guardian is estimated to have damaged about 4,000 square meters of the reef
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The USS Guardian ran aground on January 17
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