BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15)

BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15)
History
United States
Name:	USCGC Hamilton
Builder:	Avondale Shipyards
Launched:	December 18, 1965
Commissioned:	March 18, 1967
Decommissioned:	March 28, 2011
Identification:	WHEC-715
Fate:	Transferred to Philippine Navy
Badge:
Philippines
Name:	BRP Gregorio del Pilar
Namesake:	Gregorio del Pilar
Acquired:	May 13, 2011
Commissioned:	December 14, 2011
Maiden voyage:	July 18, 2011
Homeport:	Subic Bay Freeport Zone
Identification:	PF-15 (2011-2016), FF-15 (2016-present)
Nickname(s):	BRP Goyo, BRP Goryo, BRP GDP
Status:	Active
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gregorio del Pilar-class frigate
Displacement:	3,250 tons
Length:	378 ft (115 m)
Beam:	43 ft (13 m)
Draft:	8.75 ft (2.67 m)
Propulsion:	Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) arrangement: 2 × Fairbanks-Morse 38TD8-1/8-12 12-cylinder diesel engines, each producing 3,500 shp (2,610 kW) Total diesel engine output: 7,000 shp (5,220 kW), and 2 × Pratt & Whittney FT4A-6 gas turbines, each producing 18,000 shp (13,400 kW) Total gas turbine output: 36,000 shp (26,800 kW)
Speed:	29 knots (54 km/h)
Range:	14,000 nautical miles (25,900 km)
Endurance:	45 Days
Boats & landing craft carried:	2 × RHIB
Crew:	85
Sensors and processing systems:	Kelvin Hughes MantaDigital 25KW X-band magnetron navigational radar Kelvin Hughes MantaDigital 200KW SharpEye S-band solid state navigation/surface search radar Furuno FAR-28X7 series X & S-band navigation radars Sperry Mk 92 Mod. 1 Fire Control System
Electronic warfare & decoys:	2 × Mk.36 Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Countermeasures (SRBOC) Chaff and Decoy Launching System
Armament:	1 × Mk.75 Oto Melara 76mm Compact Cannon 1 x Mk. 38 Mod 1 25 mm autocannon 2 × Mk. 16 Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 6 × M2HB Browning .50 caliber machine guns
Aircraft carried:	1 × AgustaWestland AW109 Power naval helicopter
Aviation facilities:	retractable hangar and flight deck

2 × Mk.36 Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Countermeasures (SRBOC) Chaff and Decoy Launching System

BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15) is a frigate of the Philippine Navy and the lead ship of her class. She was the second ship of the Philippine Navy to be named after Gregorio del Pilar, a Filipino revolutionary general known for his role at the Battle of Tirad Pass. She was originally designated as "PF-15" from 2011 to mid-2016 when the PN adapted a new code designation, which re-designated her to "FF-15".

From 1967–2011 the ship was a Hamilton-class high endurance cutter of the United States Coast Guard that was named USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715). The U.S. decommissioned the cutter on March 28, 2011 and the Philippines acquired it under the Excess Defense Articles and the Foreign Assistance Act and is one of three ex-US Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutters to serve the Philippine Navy.

The ship now known as BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15) was launched on December 18, 1965 at Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, Louisiana as USCGC Hamilton (WHEC-715) and was named for Alexander Hamilton the first United States Secretary of the Treasury and founder of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. Hamilton was commissioned March 18, 1967.

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