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Elcano (PG-38)
ex-Gunboat No. 38

Patrol Gunboat: A Spanish built iron gunboat captured by the U.S. Army at Manila 1 May 1898; Turned over to the Navy 9 November 1898, Outfitted at Cavite Naval Yard, PI; Commissioned USS Elcano, Gunboat No. 38, 20 November 1902; Decommissioned 1 November 1907; Recommissioned 5 December 1910; Designated PG-38, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 30 June 1928; Sunk as a target 4 October 1928.

Specifications: Displacement 620 t; Length 165' 6"; Beam 26'; Draft 10'; Speed 11 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4" rifles.

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Elcano 52k U.S. Navy photo -
Elcano 111k Somewhere in China
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I		 Mike Green
Elcano 173k In the Dewey Drydock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines, circa 1910. The submarine Shark (SS 8) is off her
starboard bow
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1978.
U.S. Navy photo NH 86963		 Naval Historical Center
Isabel 94k Hangchow, China. Some of the ships of the U.S. Navy's Yangtse River Patrol at Hangchow during the 1920s, with several local junks and sampans also present. U.S. Navy ships are (from left to right): USS Isabel (PY-10); USS Villalobos (PG-42); and Elcano.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.
U.S. Navy photo NH 67127		 Naval Historical Center
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Yangtze River Patrol Memorial
The Yangtze Patrol
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