After U.S. President Barack Obama announced during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) Economic Leaders ' Meeting meeting in November 2015 that concluded the 2015 APEC summit in Manila that the United States would make a U.S. Coast Guard high endurance cutter and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel available to the Philippines , '' Boutwell '' was decommissioned on 16 March 2016 at Naval Base San Diego , California , and sold to the Philippines as an excess defense article ( EDA ) . '' Boutwell '' was the third to be transferred to the Philippine Navy
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USCGC Boutwell