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Pampanga (PG 39)
ex-Gunboat No. 39

Pampanga served both the U. S. Navy and Army.


Pampanga served the Navies of Spain and the United States.
Patrol Gunboat: Laid down in March 1887 as Pampanga at Manila Ship Co., Cavite, Philippines for the Spanish Navy; Launched in February 1888; Captured by the U.S. Army at Manila Bay in June 1898; Commissioned USS Pampanga Gunboat No. 39, 18 June 1898; Turned over to the Navy 9 November 1898 and outfitted at Cavite Naval Yard; Commissioned ; Decommissioned 30 April 1907 at Cavite Navy Yard; Loaned to U.S. Army 31 December 1908; Returned to Navy custody 11 November 1910; Recommissioned 12 April 1911; Decommissioned 31 May 1915 at Olongapo, Philippines; Recommissioned 3 January 1916 at Hong Kong; Designated PG-39, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 6 November 1928; Sunk as a target 21 November 1928 of the China coast by USS Asheville (PG-21) and USS Sacramento (PG-19).

Specifications: Displacement 243 t; Length 121'; Beam 17' 10"; Draft 7' 6"; Speed 10 kts; Complement 30; Armament one 6-pounder and three 3-pounders - (1918) four 3-pounders; Propulsion one single ended boiler, one 250ihp vertical compound engine, one shaft.

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Pampanga 127k . Robert M. Cieri
Pampanga 114k Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines. View of the waterfront, circa 1914-1916. Ships present are (from left to right): USS Monadnock (Monitor No. 3); USS Monterey (Monitor No. 6); USS Bainbridge (Destroyer No. 1); USS Decatur (Destroyer No. 5); Pampanga; and USS Piscataqua (later - AT 49).
Collection of C.A. Shively, 1978.
U.S. Navy photo NH 88559		 Naval Historical Center
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