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Sacramento (PG 19)



Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Victor - Jig

ex-Gunboat No. 19



Call sign (1919):
George - Rush - King - Vice
Sacramento Class Gunboat:

  • Laid down 30 April 1913 by William Cramp and Sons Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, PA
  • Launched, 21 February 1914
  • Commissioned USS Sacramento, Gunboat No.19, 26 April 1914
  • Designated PG-19, 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 6 February 1946 at Suisun Bay, CA and transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal
  • Sold 23 August 1947 for mercantile service, initially operating under Italian registry as Fermina
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 1,529 t.
  • Length 226' 2"
  • Length between perpendiculars 210'
  • Beam 40' 10½"
  • Draft 12' 1"
    1921 - 11' 6"
  • Speed 12 kts.
    1921 - 12.78 kts.
  • Complement 171
    1921 - 163
  • Armament: Two 4"/50 gun mounts and four 3"/50 dual purpose mounts
    1921 - Three 4"/50 mounts, two 3-pounders and two 1-pounders
  • Propulsion: Two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one 1,022shp William Cramp and Son vertical triple-expansion engines, one shaft.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Sacramento 60k - The Yangtze Patrol website
    Sacramento 131k - Darryl Baker
    Sacramento 87k c. 1919
    Serving in Northern Russia.
    Imperial War Museum photo
    Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I    		 Mike Green
    Sacramento 34k c. 1919
    Off Archangel, Russia
    Serving in Northern Russia
    Courtesy of Todd Woofenden    		 The Sub Chaser Archives
    Sacramento 68k c. 1919 Robert Hurst
    Sacramento 61k c. 1920.
    In dry dock, Charleston, SC.    		 Vance A. Adams
    Sacramento 92k
    Sacramento 113k
    Sacramento 113k c. 1920.
    Sacramento, USS Robin (AM 2), and USS Asheville (PG 21) at Charleston, SC.
    Sacramento 41k c. 1920.
    At Gibralter.
    Sacramento 88k c. 1923
    In Chinese waters
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo from "Gunboats and Marines: The United States in China, 1925-1928" by Bernard D. Cole.    		 Robert Hurst
    Sacramento 180k 4 July 1924
    Shanghai, China    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Sacramento 202k U.S. Navy photo from the 1924 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Derick S. Hartshorn
    Sacramento 112k Off Tsingtao, China, during the 1920s or 1930s. Several U.S. Navy submarines are in the foreground, among them USS S-39 (SS-144), the outboard boat in the nest.
    U.S. Navy photo NH 101685    		 Naval Historical Center
    Sacramento 158k Lieutenant (Junior Grade) John D. Bulkeley, USN, (seated, center) with the men of the ship's "E" Division, at Shanghai, China, 15 February 1938. Seated to the right of Lt (j.g.) Bulkeley is Chief Machinist's Mate Herman W. Koch, USN. USS Bridge (AF-1) is in the left background.
    Photographed by Skvirsky, Shanghai
    Courtesy of Mr. R.W. Koch, 1976
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 84944    		 Bill Gonyo
    Sacramento 69k c. 1939 .
    Sacramento 42k c. 1939
    Leaving Manila Bay for home.
    Photo taken by the USS Augusta's ship's photographer    		 Jim McGrew
    Sacramento 31k
    Sacramento 37k c. 1940
    Line drawing    		 .
    Avocet 335k 7 December 1941
    Position of Sacramento and other ships at Pearl Harbor.
    Map courtesy of National Geographic Book Division    		 Joe Radigan
    Sacramento 57k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
    Commanding Officers
    01CDR Luke McNamee, USN26 April 1914
    03CDR C. C. Dowling, USN1919
    04CDR Donald Cameron Bingham, USN20 November 1920
    05CDR Frank Jack Fletcher, USN - Retired as Admiral17 October 1922
    08CDR Robert Carlisle Giffen, USN - Retired as Vice Admiral25 June 1927 - 6 July 1929
    ??CDR Homer Hine Norton, USN1 January 1932
    ??CDR Audley Lyne Warburton, USN - Retired as Rear AdmiralDecember 1941
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website
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