BOUTWELL WHEC 719

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Hamilton Class 378-foot, High Endurance Cutter Keel Laid 12 December 1966 - Launched 17 June 1967 USCGC BOUTWELL WHEC 719 Commissioned 24 June 1968 - Decommissioned for FRAM March 1989 Recommissioned (Special) 13 September 1990 - Recommissioned (Full) 2 May 1991 Decommissioned 16 March 2016 BRP ANDRES BONIFACIO PF-17 Christened 21 JULY 2016 into the Philippine Navy

Naval Covers

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Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

USPS Pictorial Portland OR

1997-06-04

N/A

Portland Rose Festival, rubber stamp cachets.

 

USPS 4-bar "Midway Philatelic Sta." San Diego CA

2016-03-16

N/A

Decommissioning, cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Named for George S. Boutwell, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant.

Three cutters of the US Coast Guard have borne the name BOUTWELL - USCGC Boutwell (1873-1907), USCGC Boutwell WPC-130 (1927-1963) and USCGC Boutwell WHEC-719.

The ships sponsor is Mrs. Douglass Dillon, the wife of the Honorable C. Douglass Dillon, former Secretary of the Treasury.

PHILIPPINE NAMESAKE - Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro (November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897), revolutionary and founder of the Katipunan movement. He is considered a de facto national hero of the Philippines, and is also considered by some Filipino historians to be the first President of the Philippines (through the revolutionary government he established), but officially he is not recognized as such.

 

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