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Monocacy (PR 2)
ex-PG-20
ex-Gunboat No. 20

Patrol Gunboat/River Gunboat: Pre-constructed in 1912 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Dismantled and shipped to Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Shanghai, China; Laid down 28 April 1913; Launched 27 April 1914; Commissioned USS Monocacy, Gunboat No. 20, 24 June 1914; Designated PG-20, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as a River Gunboat, PR-2, 15 June 1928; Decommissioned and struck from the Navy Register 31 January 1939 at Shanghai; Towed to sea and sunk 10 February 1939.

Specifications: Displacement 204 t; Length 165 ' 6"; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 2' 5"'; Speed 12.25 kts.; Complement 147; Armament two 6-pounders, six .30 cal. Lewis machine guns.

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USS Monocacy (PG 20)
Monocacy 48k c. 1919 Robert Hurst
USS Monocacy (PR 2)
Monocacy 19k - -
Monocacy 44k U.S. Naval Institute photo
Dudley Knox Library
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Ca.,
Yangtze River Patrol Memorial Exhibit		 -
Monocacy 90k Post Card dated 17 April 1935
Shanghai, China		 Robert M. Cieri
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Yangtze River Patrol Memorial
The Yangtze Patrol
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