The Charleston, S.C., Council, along with the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, joined with the U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter (NSC) Hamilton for a commemoration ceremony aboard the cutter Jan. 2. The event, held at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, was to honor the former Treasury-class Cutter Alexander Hamilton, which was sunk by a German U-boat during World War Ⅱ. Coast Guard Capt. Scott Clendenin, NSC Hamilton's commanding officer, began the event by recounting the story of how the former cutter Alexander Hamilton was torpedoed off the coast of Iceland on that same day 74 years earlier. It was an attack that resulted in the loss of 26 Coast Guardsmen, according to a report from Coast Guard Seventh District Public Affairs. The crowd of roughly 200 included a mix of veterans, active-duty military members, civilians, cadets from the Citadel, historians, news media and the fifth great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Doug Hamilton.
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