| abstract | - USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715) was a US Coast Guard high endurance cutter and the lead ship of its class. Hamilton was based in Boston MA from commissioning until 1991 and then out of San Diego, California. Launched December 18, 1965 at Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, Louisiana and named for Alexander Hamilton the first United States Secretary of the Treasury and founder of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. She was commissioned March 18, 1967. USCGC Hamilton 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 (PF-15).
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