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Sacramento (PG 19)



Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Victor - Jig

ex-Gunboat No. 19

Sacramento Class Gunboat: Laid down 30 April 1913 at 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"; Beam 40' 10"; Draft 12' 1"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 107; Armament two 4"/50 gun mounts and four 3"/50 dual purpose mounts; Propulsion two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 836ihp William Cramp and Son vertical triple expansion engines, two shafts.

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Sacramento 60k - The Yangtze Patrol web site
Sacramento 31k - Jon Burdett
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 under the command of Commander C. C. Dowling, USN
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 c. 1920.
In dry dock, Charleston, SC.		 Vance A. Adams
Sacramento 113k c. 1920.
In dry dock, Charleston, SC.		 Vance A. Adams
Sacramento 113k c. 1920.
Sacramento, USS Robin (AM 2), and USS Asheville (PG 21) at Charleston, SC.		 Vance A. Adams
Sacramento 41k c. 1920.
At Gibralter.		 Vance A. Adams
Sacramento 180k 4 July 1924
Shanghai, China		 Robert M. Cieri
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 69k c. 1939 .
Sacramento 50k c. 1939
Leaving Manila Bay for home.
Photo taken by the USS Augusta's ship's photographer		 Jim McGrew
Sacramento 31k c. 1939
Leaving Manila Bay for home.
Photo taken by the USS Augusta's ship's photographer		 Jim McGrew
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
View the Sacramento (PG-19)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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Yangtze River Patrol Memorial
The Yangtze Patrol
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