&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:USCGC_Hamilton_(WHEC-715).jpg) USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Hamilton |
| Namesake | Alexander Hamilton |
| Builder | Avondale Shipyards |
| Launched | December 18, 1965 |
| Commissioned | March 18, 1967 |
| Decommissioned | March 28, 2011 |
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| Fate | Decommissioned and transferred as an Excess Defense Article to the Philippines as BRP Gregorio del Pilar |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hamilton-class high endurance cutter |
| Displacement | 3,250 tons |
| Length | 378 ft (115.2 m) |
| Beam | 43 ft (13.1 m) |
| Propulsion | Two Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines and two Pratt & Whitney gas turbine engines |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) max |
| Range | 14,000 nautical miles (25,900 km) |
| Endurance | 45 days |
| Complement | 167 |
| Sensors and processing systems | AN/SPS-40 air-search radar MK 92 Fire Control System |
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USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter and the lead ship of its class. It was based at Boston, Massachusetts from commissioning until 1991, then out of San Pedro, California before it was moved to its last home port in San Diego, California. It was launched on December 18, 1965 at Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, Louisiana and named for Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury and founder of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. It was commissioned on March 18, 1967.
It was decommissioned on March 28, 2011 and transferred to the Philippine Navy as an excess defense article under the Foreign Assistance Act on May 13, 2011 as BRP Gregorio del Pilar.