An RAF C-17 transporter plane will be sent as well.
Up to 10,000 people are feared to have been killed.
Britain is contributing £10m and HMS Daring, currently deployed near Singapore, will shortly be heading at full speed towards the disaster zone with further support from an RAF C-17 which will be a powerful help to the relief operation.
The additional support announced by the prime minister will provide aid flights to Cebu in the eastern Philippines, the delivery of temporary shelters, blankets and water purification tablets to 300,000 people, and household goods for water treatment and storage.
Launched in 2006, HMS Daring was the first of the Navy's six £1bn Type 45 destroyers.
It has a Lynx helicopter on board and has equipment to make drinking water from seawater.
bbc.co.uk
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