BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PS-15)

	BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PS-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
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Philippines
Name	BRP Gregorio del Pilar
Namesake	Gregorio Hilario del Pilar y Sempio
Acquired	May 13, 2011
Commissioned	December 14, 2011
Maiden voyage	July 18, 2011
Homeport	Subic Bay Freeport Zone
Identification	Pennant number: PS-15 (2019-present); MMSI number: 265902190;
Nickname(s)	BRP Goyo
Status	In active service
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General characteristics
Class and type	Gregorio del Pilar-class offshore patrol vessel
Displacement	3,250 tons
Length	378 ft (115.2 m)
Beam	43 ft (13.1 m)
Draft	15 ft (4.6 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); 2 × Pratt & Whittney FT4A-6 gas turbines, each producing 18,000 shp (13,400 kW);
Speed	29 kn (53.7 km/h; 33.4 mph)
Range	14000 nmi (25928 km)
Endurance	45 days
Boats & landing ; craft carried	2 × RHIB
Complement	85
Sensors and ; processing systems	Combat System:; NavalShield Baseline 2 iCMS by Hanwha Systems ; Coast Watch System Shipboard Command and Control Suite (CWS-SCCS) by Global Technical Systems (GTS); Search radar:; Saab AB AN/SPS-77 Sea Giraffe AMB 3D air/surface search radar; Navigation radar:; Kelvin Hughes MK2 25KW X-band navigational radar; ; Kelvin Hughes Sharpeye 200W S-band solid state navigation/surface search radar; Fire Control System:; Sperry Mk 92 Mod 1 Fire Control System; Electro-Optical Tracking System:; FLIR Systems SEAFLIR 230 electro-optical/infra-red (EO/IR) system (Awaiting Installation); Sonar:; ELAC SONAR ELAC Hunter 2.0 hull-mounted sonar;
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	2 × Mark 36 SRBOC (Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Countermeasures) mortar-type Launching System by BAE Systems; RESM:;
Armament	1 × Mk 75 OTO-Melara 76/62C Compact 76mmL/62 DP autocannon; 2 × Mk 38 Mod 3 25mm autocannon RCWS by BAE Systems; 1 × Mk 38 Mod 1 25mm cannon; 6 × M2HB Browning .50 cal guns;
Armor	CBRNE defense system; steel hull, aluminium superstructure;
Aircraft carried	1 × AW109E Power naval helicopter
Aviation facilities	flight deck; retractable hangar;

BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PS-15) is the lead ship of her class of offshore patrol vessel of the Philippine Navy. She is the second ship 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 2012 to mid-2016. Then the Navy adopted a new code designation system and she was redesignated as "FF-15". In February 2019, the Navy downgraded the status of the entire class from frigate to patrol ship and redesignated her to "PS-15".

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

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