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Gunboat No. 40 / PG-40 Quiros


A schooner rigged composite gunboat; Laid down, June 1894 at Whampoa Dock Co., Hong Kong, China for the Spanish Navy; Launched 1895; Captured by the US Army at Manila PI, 1898; Acquired by the US Navy 21 February 1900; Commissioned USS Quiros (Gunboat No. 40), (name retained) at Cavite Navy Yard PI, 14 March 1900; Decommissioned at Cavite Navy Yard PI, 29 January 1904; Recommissioned 2 September 1904; Decommissioned at Cavite Navy Yard PI, 11 March 1908; Recommissioned 11 October 1910; Designated (PG-40) 17 July 1920; Decommissioned at Shanghai, China, August 1923; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, s\Sunk as a target 10 October 1923.

Specifications: Displacement 350 t; Length 145'; Beam 22' 9"; Draft 7' 9"; Speed 11 kts; Complement 57; Armament two 6-pdrs, two 3-pdrs.
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Quiros 51k US Navy photo # (NH327) -
Quiros 56k 8 December 1922, Ichang, China
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