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Gunboat No. 39 / PG-39 Pampanga


A schooner rigged iron gunboat: Laid down March 1887 at Manila Ship Co., Cavite PI for Spain; Captured by the US Army at Manila Bay, June 1898; Placed in American commissioned service 18 June 1898; Turned over to the Navy 9 November 1898, Outfitted at Cavite Naval Yard PI; Commissioned USS Pampanga (Gunboat No. 39), name retained ; Decommissioned 30 April 1907 at Cavite Navy Yard; Loaned to US Army 31 December 1908; Returned to US Naval custody 11 November 1910; Recommissioned 12 April 1911; Decommissioned 31 May 1915 at Olongapo PI; Recommissioned 3 January 1916 at Hong Kong; Reclassified (PG-39), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 6 November 1928; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, 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-pdr, three 3-pdr.
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