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Isla de Luzon

Call sign (1912):
Nan - Have - Xray

Call sign (1916):
Nan - Quack - Jig

Isla de Luzon served the Navies of Spain, the United States, the Louisiana Naval Militia and the Illinois Naval Militia

Isla de Cuba Class Gunboat:

Laid down in 1886 by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Newcastle on Tyne, England for the Spanish Navy

Completed in December 1886

Launched in 1887

Captured in 1898 in the Philippines

Commissioned USS Isla de Luzon 31 January 1900

Decommissioned in 1907

Loaned to the Louisiana Naval Militia 6 December 1907 and later to the Illinois Naval Militia as a training ship

Commissioned again 19 May 1917

Decommissioned 15 February 1919

Struck from the Navy list 23 July 1919

Sold 10 March 1920 to the Bahama and West Indies Trading Co. of Nassau, British West Indies and renamed Reviver

Sold in 1923 to Bahama Salvors, Ltd. of Nassau

Scrapped in 1931.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,020 t.

Length 195'

Beam 30'

Draft 11' 4½"

Speed 11.23 kts.

Complement 137

1914 - 145

1918 - 153

Armament: Four 4" mounts and three torpedo tubes

1905 - Four 4" mounts, four 6-pounders and four .30 cal. machine guns

1911 - Four 4"/40 rapid fire mounts, four 6-pounder rapid fire mounts, two 1-pounder rapid fire mounts and added two temporary 3-pounder rapid fire mounts

1918 - Four 3-pounders

Propulsion: Two straight-away cylinderical boilers, two 267.5ihp horizontal triple expansion engines, two shafts.

Reboilered with Babcock and Wilcox water tube boilers with two tall, thin smokestacks, probably between 1908 and 1911.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Isla de Luzon
	22k	Namesake: *Luzon* is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. It is ranked 15th largest in the world by land area. Located in the northern portion of the archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon City, the country's most populous city. With a population of 53 million as of 2015, it contains 52.5% of the country's total population and is the fourth most populous island in the world	Tommy Trampp
	82k	Lying calmly at anchor. Her peacetime Spanish paint scheme, with her black hull is clearly evident Photos and text from Spanish American War Centennial website	Robert Hurst
	125k	Barcelona, Spain Photographed circa the later 1880s Photo by Miquel Matorrodona, Barcelona Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 53277	Robert Hurst
	496k	Water color painting of above photo	Manuel García García
	127k	Wreck of the Isla de Luzon, photographed sometime after the battle Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 902941	Robert Hurst
	64k	The hulk of the gunboat Isla de Luzon after the battle of Manila Bay. She lies with her keel sitting on the shallow bottom Photo and text from Spanish American War Centennial website
	112k	The hulk of the gunboat Isla de Luzon after the battle of Manila Bay. Her deck is awash, but otherwise has little apparent damage Photo and text from Spanish American War Centennial website
USS Isla de Luzon
	53k		Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
	207k	In drydock Naval History and Heritage Command photos NH 91650 and NH 91651	Mike Green
	200k
	118k	c. 1905 Detroit Photographic Co. photo 021720 from the Library of Congress photo No. LC-D4-21720
	96k	c. 1905 Photo from U.S. Warships of World War One, by P.H. Silverstone	Robert Hurst
	160k	c. 1913 Isla De Luzon during the Perry Centennial Naval parade, possibly at Erie, Pennsylvania. She was training ship of the Illinois Naval Militia at the time Courtesy of Rear Admiral Denys W. Knoll, USN, Ret., Erie Pennsylvania Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 75672	Mike Green