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Tacloban (PG-22)
ex-Tulsa



Call sign:
Nan - Item - Sugar - Tare
Asheville Class Gunboat: Laid down, 9 December 1919 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC.; Launched, 25 August 1922; Commissioned USS Tulsa (PG-22), 3 December 1923; Renamed Tacloban 18 December 1944 to free the name Tulsa for heavy cruiser, CA-129; Decommissioned, 6 March 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration/Maritime Commission 12 October 1946 for disposal.
Fate unknown.

Specifications:: Displacement 1,270 t.(lt) 1760 t. (fl); Length 241' 2"; Beam 41' 3"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 12.1 kts.; Complement 194; Armament three 4"/50 gun mounts, four 3"/50 dual purpose mounts; Propulsion three Bureau modified (Thornycroft) boilers, two 1,200ihp Parsons engines, Parsons double reduction gear, two shafts.

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Tulsa 92k c. 1925
Navy Department Photo		 Joe Radigan
Tulsa 34k - Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
Tulsa 48k 1 September 1938
After overhaul		 -
Tulsa 71k 24 June 1943
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
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