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Wake (PR 3)
ex-Guam (PR 3)
ex-Guam (PG 43)


Wake served the Navies of the United States, Imperial Japan, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China.
Shallow-draft River Gunboat: Laid down by the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Shanghai, China; Launched, 28 May 1927; Commissioned USS Guam (PG-43), 28 December 1927; Reclassified as a River Gunboat, PR-3, 15 June 1928; Renamed Wake in January 1941; Surrendered to Japanese forces at Shanghai, 8 December 1941; Struck from the Naval Register, 25 March 1942; Renamed HIJNS Tatara by Japan; Recovered by U.S. forces in August 1945; Transferred to Nationalist China in 1946 and renamed RCS Tai Yuan; Captured by Communist Chinese forces in 1949. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 350 t; Length 159' 5"; Beam 27' 1"; Draft 5' 3"(mean); Speed 14.5 kts; Complement 59; Armament two 3" gun mounts, eight .30 cal. Lewis machine guns; Propulsion two 950hp triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

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USS Guam (PR 3)
Guam 60k U.S.Naval Institute photo Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, Yangtze River Patrol Memorial Exhibit
Guam 34k . HyperWar U.S. Navy in WWII
RCS Tai Yuan
Guam 45k . Robert Hurst
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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Yangtze River Patrol Memorial
The Yangtze Patrol
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