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Isla de Luzon


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 1887 by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Newcastle on Tyne, England for the Spanish Navy; Captured in 1898 in the Philippines and commissioned USS Isla de Luzon 31 January 1900; Loaned to the Louisiana and Illinois Naval Militia as a training ship; 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 New York and renamed Reviver. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,020 t.; Length 195'; Beam 30'; Draft 11' 4½"; Speed unknown; Complement 137; Armament four 4" mounts and three torpedo tubes.

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Isla de Luzon 96k c. 1905
Photo from U.S. Warships of World War One, by P.H. Silverstone Fighting Ships		 Robert Hurst
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