page_title: BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8)
section_title: United States Coast Guard service 1946-1972
hierarchical_section_title: BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) / History / United States Coast Guard service 1946-1972
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Coast Guard weather reporting ship USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386) in the Atlantic
context_page_description: The BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) was an Andrés Bonifacio-class frigate of the Philippine Navy in commission from 1977 to 1990. She was one of six ex-United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tenders/ex-United States Coast Guard Casco-class high endurance cutters received from the United States after the Vietnam War, two of which were acquired to supply spare parts for the other four. She and her three commissioned sister ships were the largest Philippine Navy combat ships of their time.
context_section_description: In 1946, the U.S. Navy transferred Wachapreague to the United States Coast Guard, which commissioned her as the  Coast Guard cutter USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386). Reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated WHEC-386 in 1966, McCulloch served for nearly 26 years, on patrol in ocean stations in the North Atlantic Ocean, reporting weather data and engaging in search-and-rescue and law-enforcement activities.
caption: as USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386)
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