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Palos (Gunboat No. 16 / PG-16)
PR-1


Patrol Gunboat: Pre-constructed at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA, 1912; Dismantled and Shipped to Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Shanghai, China; Laid down, 28 April 1913; Launched, 23 April 1914; Commissioned USS Palos (Gunboat No. 16), 24 June 1914; Designated as a Patrol Gunboat PG-16, 17 July 1920; Reclassified a River Gunboat PR-1, 15 June 1928; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 21 May 1937 at Chugking, China; Sold for scrapping, 3 June 1937 to Ming Sung Industrial Co.

Specifications: Displacement 204 t; Length 165 ' 6"; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 2' 5"'; Speed 12.25 kts; Complement 147; Armament two 6-pdrs, six .30-cal. Lewis machine guns.
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Palos 55k USNI photo
Dudley Knox Library
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Ca.,
Yangtze River Patrol Memorial Exhibit
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Palos 81k c. 1930. DANFS

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Yangtze River Patrol Memorial
The Yangtze Patrol
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