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Asheville (PG 21)
ex-Gunboat No. 21

Sunk 3 March 1942
Asheville Class Gunboat: Laid down, 9 June 1917 at the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC.; Launched, 4 July 1918; Commissioned USS Asheville (Gunboat No. 21), 6 July 1920; Redesignated PG-21, 17 July 1920; Sunk by Japanese squadron south of Java, Netherlands East Indies 3 March 1942; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1942.

Specifications: Displacement 1,207 (lt), 1760 (fl) t; Length 241' 2"; Beam 41' 3"; Draft 12' 9"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 159; Armament five 4"/50 gun mounts, two 3-pounders; Propulsion three Thorny-Craft Bureau Modified boilers, two 1,200shp Charleston Navy Yard steam turbines, two shafts.
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Asheville 142k 9 June 1917
Keel laying ceremony. The first major warship built at the shipyard		 Robert Hall
Asheville 89k Workmen waiting for the signal to begin sliding the Asheville down the ways Robert Hall
Asheville 52k Asheville christened with pure mountain water from Asheville, NC her namesake Robert Hall
Asheville 104k 4 July 1918
Asheville slides into the Cooper River		 Robert Hall
Asheville 259k View taken on 11 September 1918, showing a marine railway under construction in the foreground. Asheville is fitting out in the left middle distance. In front of her is USS Walter Adams (SP 400). USS SC-368, with dark numbers painted on her bow, is further to the right.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45247		 Original photo: Naval Historical Center
Replacement photo: Robert Hall
Asheville 104k In drydock for her final fitting-out Robert Hall
Asheville 110k c. 1920
Asheville near completion at the Charleston Navy Yard.
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I		 Mike Green
Asheville 81k - Philip R Abbey
The Yangtze Patrol web site
Asheville 71k - Scott McCoy
Asheville 79k Close up of above photo. Scott McCoy
Sacramento 113k c. 1920.
USS Sacramento (PG 19), USS Robin (AM 2), and Asheville at Charleston, SC.		 Vance A. Adams
Asheville 208k With awnings spread to combat the sun's heat while anchored in the Canal Zone, serving with the Special Service Squadron in the late 1920s.
National Archive Photo 80-G-1034878		 Naval Historical Center
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